Liquid Crystals (1978)

Liquid Crystals (1978)

Release Date: 1978, December 31
Directors: Jean Painlevé
Countries: France
Production: Les Documents Cinématographiques

Overview:

Title cards introduce images we watch without narration; they are displays of shape and color. François de Roubaix's electronic music accompanies these images, photographed under a polarizing microscope. The crystals appear to move like tiny organisms: small four-part fans share the frame with flowing lines of pink. Multiple patterns appear side by side.