In Chemical Somnia, the Canadian filmmaker Scott Portingale captures the great thing about chemical reactions in wondrous element. Utilizing time-lapse and macro images, even a spot smaller than a sq. inch on a Petri dish springs to dazzling life, capturing processes of crystalisation, section change and fluid dynamics at speeds and sizes that the human eye can relish. Portingale units these visuals to a dramatic string rating from the Turkish composer Gorkem Sen – carried out on an instrument referred to as a yaybahar, which Sen himself invented. Via their impressed collaboration, the pair craft an otherworldly expertise on the intersection of human and hidden scales, and the worlds of artwork and science.
