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Science¡¯s 10 Most Beautiful Experimental #2 Galileo 
 Section  Jeanne Liotta
 Director  Jeanne Liotta
 Format  USA / 2006 / Color / 2 min 30 sec / DV
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The first real experimentalist was Galileo, who supposedly dropped a feather and a hammer simultaneously from the Leaning Tower of Pisa in order to demonstrate that the two would hit the ground at the same time. Approx. 400 years later that trick still works.   (Courtesy NASA 1971)



12 Observando el Cielo    /USA / 2007 / Color / 19 min / 16mm
 

Director:  Jeanne Liotta

 

 

Seven years of celestial field recordings gathered from the chaos of the cosmos and inscribed onto 16mm film f...


11 Science¡¯s 10 most Beautiful Experimental #10 Foucault    /USA / 2006 / Color / 2 min 30 sec / DV
 

Director:  Jeanne Liotta

 

 

The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco houses this particular pendulum, where one can watch the E...


Science¡¯s 10 Most Beautiful Experimental #2 Galileo    /USA / 2006 / Color / 2 min 30 sec / DV
 

Director:  Jeanne Liotta

 

 

The first real experimentalist was Galileo, who supposedly dropped a feather and a hammer simultaneously from ...


9 One Day This May No Longer Exist    /USA / 2001/2005 / Color / 10 min / 16mm Double Projection
 

Director:  Jeanne Liotta

 

 

Lucretius hs identified the substratum of everything that exists with homogeneous atoms too small to be percei...


8 Haiku (for Onizuka)    /USA / 2007 / B&W / 2 min / 16mm
 

Director:  Jeanne Liotta

 

 

On January 28, 1986 the Challenger Mission 51-dash- L set out to observe Halley¡¯s Comet from space but explod...


7 Eclipse    /USA / 2005 / Color / 3 min 30 sec / 16mm
 

Director:  Jeanne Liotta

 

 

Lunar eclipse event, 11.09.03, documented and translated via the light-sensitive medium of film. In the 4th c ...


6 What makes Day and Night    /USA / 1998 / B&W / 9 min / 16mm
 

Director:  Jeanne Liotta

 

 

This 1940¡¯s artifact is coupled with music by Nino Rota to expose the existential skeleton in the closet: our...


5 Loretta    /USA / 2003 / Color / 4 min / 16mm
 

Director:  Jeanne Liotta

 

 

An abstract moving rayogram in the form of a woman or an aria. Living in time experienced as high drama, disso...


4 Muktikara    /USA / 1999 / B&W / 11 min / 16mm
 

Director:  Jeanne Liotta

 

 

From the Sanskrit, ¡®gentle gazing brings liberation¡¯, the title is also the name of the particular body of w...


3 What We As Humans Trying Fallibly Forever    /USA / 2006 / Color / 2 min 30 sec (Video Loop) / DV
 

Director:  Jeanne Liotta

 

 

DVD loop installation, silent, duration: eternal. One needle from the media haystack of the mid 20th century


2 Window    /USA / 2001 / Color / 6 min / DV
 

Director:  Jeanne Liotta

 

 

'Window' is a lo-fi, trance-inducing trigger into other realms. A static, formal elegance masks the teemi...


1 The Land of Enchantment    /USA / 1994 / Color / 3 min / DV
 

Director:  Jeanne Liotta

 

 

Super 8 Kodachrome camera roll projected on video, silent


 

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