The Beauty of Blood Flow

What would it be like to breathe yourself into your own body? To flow with the out-breath of trees into your own branching lungs and journey deep into a breathing cell.

Release Date

2024

Type

Documentary Film

Collaborator

Fraunhofer Mevis

[ IMG. - 001 ] The Beauty of Blood Flow, Documentary film by Marshmallow Laser Feast and Fraunhofer MEVIS

What would it be like to breathe yourself into your own body? To flow with the out-breath of trees into your own lungs and journey deep into a breathing cell. We asked this question about four years ago and like much of our work, the starting point of this journey was scientific observation. We were very fortunate to have found Fraunhofer MEVIS, who work with artists like ourselves and we embarked on a collaboration that resulted in a series of artworks.

This short film is a behind-the-scenes look into the collaboration with all its mind-boggling details and we thank the amazing team at Fraunhofer MEVIS for their creative and technical attention to detail on this journey.

[ IMG. - 002 ] Evolver at ACMI, Melbourne

Fraunhofer MEVIS Team

Matthias Günther, Bianka Hofmann, Alexander Köhn, supported by David Black, Christiane Engel, Anja Hennemuth, Valentin Kraft, Mathias Neugebauer, Sabrina Tölken (née Haase), with a special thanks to Jochen Hirsch concerning the medical image acquisition.

[ IMG. - 003 ] Simulating airflow into a lung derived from MRI data

CLOT Magazine

The collaboration has opened new ways of seeing and experiencing the human body, enabling a broader audience to engage with developments in digital medicine through sci-art installations. Immersive art-sci installations allow audiences to explore topics such as the human body and novel technologies to examine it, changing the view from which we scientists perceive and address phenomena of the human body; Günther shared about this collaboration.

AWARDS

RAW Science – Industry Award for Best Animation