Morphogenesis

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This film is an artistic exploration of the subject of morphogenesis - the generation of shape in living organisms- in developing spores, plants and bacterial colonies; description by Bernardo Pollak: "In Morphogenesis, I teamed-up with artist-filmmaker, Martín Amézaga, to address some of the implications of how nature generates shapes. This Short was developed with the support of Cambridge Shorts, where the opportunity of bringing together researchers and filmmakers allowed the development of a creative environment in which we were able to consolidate our ideas. The main motivation for making this Short was the possibility of developing an artistic exploration of my research in a format that would allow viewers to experience the process of morphogenesis as an aesthetic phenomena. We used extended-focus macro-imaging in order to capture the richness and complexity of plant development of a primitive land-plant, Marchantia polymorpha. In the images, it is possible to appreciate the progression from single spores and gemmae (few cells) into complex multi-cellular forms with intricate and fascinating structural morphologies. This method allowed exquisite, detailed resolution and excellent composition of the images, highlighting the beauty of this fundamental process. We also performed confocal time-lapse microscopy of bacteria expressing fluorescent proteins in order to show examples of natural patterns forming in bacterial colonies as they clashed into each other creating fr

Published 2015-05-06 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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