Phenomena Documentary

A psychedelic exploration of naturally occurring patterns and the forces that create them

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@PhenomenaDoc @ABCaustralia The team visualised evolution using a single celled life form, as it replicated and grew. They also watched an egg grow into a tadpole, then undergo metamorphosis, transforming into a frog over two months.

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Evolution: Slime mould grows like lace or lungs, a tadpole metamorphoses.

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Magnitudes: Patterns of life from space and inner space

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Gravity: The movement of stars and planets as you’ve never seen them.

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Electricity: watch electricity move slowly across a piece of wood.

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@PhenomenaDoc @ABCaustralia The team visualised matter using boiled salts mixed into water, poured over a glass plate where it begins to rapidly cool & evaporate. The salt molecules form crystals & replicate their structure outwards.

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Matter: table salt, ammonium chloride and other salts burst into ‘life’ as they form crystals

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Light: long-lived bubbles looking like gas giants – some lasted over ten minutes

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@PhenomenaDoc @ABCaustralia The team visualized energy using alcohol and inks dropped into hydrocarbons causing the chemicals to react and change.

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Watch the series at https://t.co/40aAg1qbST

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Energy: inks dropped into linseed oil, WD40 and other oils produce explosive patterns like those seen on the surface of the Sun
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@PhenomenaDoc @ABCaustralia 2. Water resting in an upright facing speaker vibrated between 1hz and 300hz to produce the ‘cymatics’ patterns.
water and salt.

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@PhenomenaDoc @ABCaustralia The team visualized sound waves using two techniques:

1. Salt resting on thin metal plates, mounted to a high frequency mechanical wave driver and function generator.

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Waves: see sound create beautiful geometric patterns in water and salt.
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@PhenomenaDoc @ABCaustralia @MashupPictures @ScreenAustralia @FilmVictoria @ABCArts @abc_science And here's the first teaser. You can also watch the trailer at https://t.co/gukfXpoqZx.

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@PhenomenaDoc @ABCaustralia And these?

The @PhenomenaDoc films were produced by Josef Gatti, and Rob Innes from @MashupPictures with partners
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@ScreenAustralia
@FilmVictoria
@ABCArts
@abc_science

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Extreme cinematography captures everyday phenomena.

Over the coming days I’m going to tweet a series of photos and clips from @PhenomenaDoc, a stunning series of short @ABCaustralia films.

To start: some stills. What are they?

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Extreme cinematography captures everyday phenomena @PhenomenaDoc @scienceinpublic @ABCaustralia https://t.co/C2neusT3OF