Welcome to the student productions, the newest visionaries of science film. Scinema is the first science film festival in the world to include a student category. Be sure to check out these films during Scinema 2001!

 

Title Minutes Synopsis Science Field
:plugins, drifting... 1 The Peripheral Citizen wanders late-nite Tokyo, his cine-spex transporting him through a world he can't comprehend - cutting up the city and passing it through his body, to emerge as the residue of some new and unknown language. Experimental/Art
A GIHS Film 15 Escape to a parallel universe. Fiction/Narrative
Bubble FAQ 10 This film is an explanation of bubbles and records the results of how to produce the best bubbles. Chemistry
Lifeskills Society 2001 16 East Maitland Public School students showing aspects of their school's Lifeskills Society program which combines environmental awareness, water conservation, technological design and engineering, with a school-student run economy which is integrated into the school's science and technology program. The society is run by the students K-6. Environmental/

Ecology/Natural History

Light Study 12 From the beginning of mankind, people have been fascinated by light and the differences between light and dark. Over time, light has been observed, used and mankind has tried to explain it, initially through stories and myths and later by scientific theor Experimental/Art
Loco 7 Barry Gibbons is a filmmaker with a unique vision. He also has the handycam to record it. He just has to remember to take the lenscap off first. An attempted film within a film that would make any mother proud. Fiction/Narrative
Lost for Words 7 It could happen at any time. In your city, in your street, it could even happen in your own home. The conversation could die. Every second of every hour of every day, a conversation dies in this country alone. It’s a horrific problem that affects us all.

'Lost for Words' deals with a subject no one likes to talk about - not having anything to say. And it explores one woman's attempts to counteract the problem: Dr Madeline Zuminsky at the Institute for Rehabilitation and Resocialisation for the Conversationally Challenged. A film about conversing that will leave everyone speechless!
Fiction/Narrative
Sheep-thing Plus Ladder Equals One 9 A clone sets off to find out where he came from. Biology/Zoology, Experimental/Art 
Omitted Science! 8 Two schoolgirls angered about their science homework wish that technology had not progressed to what it is now so they wouldn't have to learn as much. Their wish comes true and the next day they are in chaos as none of their appliances or anything invented over the last 50 years works. Technology/Engineering
Our Place in Space 9 An alien invasion of Earth. Fiction/Narrative
Our Place in Space: The Fifth Day 7 A contest for the ultimate domination of the universe. Fiction/Narrative
Ptolemy vs Copernicus: Generation X 13 What if Ptolemy and Copernicus actually met? Will, in Generation X, they do! History of Science
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