Synopsis:
Ampersand is science visualisation meeting visual music. The film takes the audience on a playful musical journey from the subatomic to the galactic and touches on many core ideas of science like the wave particle duality, evolution, and pollination.
- Director:
- Erin Shea
- Year:
- 2016
- Country:
- United States
- Running time:
- 3 min.
- Technique:
- 2D Animation, Motion Graphics
- Production type:
- Professional
- Producers:
- Mar Elepano, Bethany Sparks, Erin Shea
- Animators:
- Erin Shea, Simón Wilches Castro
- Script writer:
- Brett Shea
- Music composer:
- Keep Shelly in Athens
- Sound designer:
- Marcello Dubaz
- Editor:
- Erin Shea
- Production:
- University of Southern California
- Distribution:
- Vimeo
- Genres:
- Abstract, Experimental, Non-narrative
- Tags:
- Surreal, Time, Nature, Poetic, Transformation, Dreams, Minimalist, Non-violent
- Audience:
- 16+
- Festival selections:
- Hench DADA class of 2015, Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film
- Awards:
- The Alfred P Sloan Foundation Science and Film Award
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