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  • Rust in Soils – What happens when microorganisms breathe iron?

    When soils are flooded, they are lacking oxygen. Then, some microorganisms “breathe” iron, causing mineral transformations. This science communication film introduces a novel research approach for investigating iron mineral transformations in soils directly in the field, which has previously been...

  • What is Blastomycosis?

    Northwestern Ontario is one of the world's hotspots for Blastomycosis and First Nations communities are some of the most vulnerable. Find out what Blastomycosis is and how to avoid it.

  • Tributary

    A short experimental ethnographic film that traces the movement of natural resources through the Icelandic landscape against the visual and sonic sites of data centers and power plants.

    The film explores the covert, 'black-boxed' data centers (remote and highly secure sites, obscured from maps a...

  • Moonshot Mission

    Quantum scientist and former hacker Stephanie Wehner is on a mission to develop the worlds’ first operational quantum internet network before 2030. A daunting task, which some would even call crazy, but Wehner believes she can do it – not only by writing scientific articles, but simply by buildin...

  • Human Beings in the Museum (Menschen im Museum)

    Museumization is stagnation, at least when understood in the traditional sense. Certain things are removed from their everyday existence and declared to be something special. From now on, its role is to be looked at, understood and often revered. In natural history museums, the moment of standing...

  • Seeds of the North

    00:20:00 | Canada | Directed by Jyothis Thomas
    Seeds of the North is a documentary film set in Thunder Bay, northern Ontario, Canada, centered around the Lakehead University Agricultural Research Station, known as LUARS. The film explores how agriculture, research, and community come together in ...

  • The Underground Astronaut

    Beneath our feet lies a mystery. A complex underground network of fungi keeps our ecosystem alive by exchanging nutrients and carbon with plants and trees. Remarkably, no one quite knows how these advanced and age-old systems operate, and how they are affected by climate change. The Underground A...