Shapes of the invisible

One of the most surprising and ambitious scientific films ever made, coproduced with the Museum of Science & Industry in Paris. Shapes of the Invisible allows the viewer to discover, for the first time in a seamless camera zoom, the microscopic structure of the surface of familiar objects and creatures, revealing unexpected and beautiful landscapes which we look at from afar in daily life yet which remain invisible to all but the most powerful electronic microscopes. The first set of three-minute films concerns raw or processed materials (steel, aluminium, concrete, wood, ceramic, brass, clay, carbon fiber, plastic, a hair and a tooth) and the second flora and fauna (a leaf, crab, human skin, butterfly, flower, fish, flea, eye, corn, fly, mushroom).