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Liquid Crystals

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Title cards introduce images we watch without narration; they are displays of shape and color. François de Roubaix's electronic music accompanies these images, photographed under a polarizing microscope. The crystals appear to move like…

DirectorJean Painlevé

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Criterion ChannelCriterion Channel
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