An Eyeful of Sound

Just in: the 2010 Imagine Science Films Festival's Nature Scientific Merit award, given to "a short film that exemplifies science in narrative filmmaking in a compelling, credible and inspiring manner," is An Eyeful of Sound, a short film about audio-visual synaesthesia by Samantha Moore.

Here's the trailer:



An Eyeful of Sound - trailer from Samantha Moore on Vimeo.

It's a little hard from that clip to get a sense of what the film is like. But it's great that an organization is finally calling attention to science-themed short films. Bravo, ISFF.

Related: The Eyeful of Sound blog, with many more interesting links on synaesthesia, such as Carrie C. Firman's Synesthetic Library.

Learn more about the Imagine Science Films Festival (and help them out during their last ten days of their Kickstarter pledge drive.)

Finally, note that the submissions window is now open for NYC filmmaker/scientist teams to apply for the ISFF Film Lab grant.

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