Nyc Filmmaker Looking For Physics Lab

afilipponejr

10th July 2012 - 01:55 PM

Hello everyone...

My name is Andrew Filippone Jr. and I'm a filmmaker in New York City.

I'm making a series of short videos for a client (the client is a 2-day career seminar for those in the nonprofit sector) and I'd like to capture footage of an active physics lab. Ideally, the lab would be doing work that could be called quantum physics. I'd like to record scientists and machines at work, blinking lights, computer screens, and things like that. No interviews or spoken-word material, just visuals.

A central theme in our videos is "paradox" – specifically, how opposites can co-exist at the same time – and so the footage of scientists working in quantum physics will be used to evoke this theme. It will be a subtle connection, but I think it will be effective.

Wondering if anyone here can recommend a lab/institution in the Northeast corridor, between New York City and Boston? I wouldn't need any special accommodations, just permission to show up and watch.

We've already approached the Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) in Cambridge, MA, but they politely declined.

Any leads/suggestions/recommendations/advice would be greatly appreciated. In addition to this thread, I can also be reached at andrew@tellingstory.com.

Thank you.

-Andrew

rpenner

10th July 2012 - 02:47 PM

That's what sets and actors are for.

People working with thousands of dollars of equipment to find answers that matter doesn't seem like a good way to evoke paradox. When "paradox" is used in science it typically just means that reality and unlearned human intuition about reality diverge. It seems that your film might be viewed as exposing any such lab to ridicule at a time when people are struggling to persuade current investment in research to continue.

http://steveisnothappy.com/no!-gabba-gabba.html

afilipponejr

10th July 2012 - 02:52 PM

QUOTE (rpenner+Jul 10 2012, 02:47 PM)

That's what sets and actors are for.

People working with thousands of dollars of equipment to find answers that matter doesn't seem like a good way to evoke paradox. When "paradox" is used in science it typically just means that reality and unlearned human intuition about reality diverge. It seems that your film might be viewed as exposing any such lab to ridicule at a time when people are struggling to persuade current investment in research to continue.

http://steveisnothappy.com/no!-gabba-gabba.html

Thanks rpenner.

Mekigal

18th July 2012 - 07:39 AM

QUOTE (afilipponejr+Jul 10 2012, 02:52 PM)

Thanks rpenner.

how bout the north west . A lab in Hamilton Montana . The same one that studies Kuru and Rocky Mountain Fever. They might let you for a price. Montana is looking for opportunity . Show Me the money

Mekigal

18th July 2012 - 08:02 AM

i got a second place . Blue Marble . It is right by the airport in Missoula Mt. You could fly in do your shoot and fly out in one day . They are my good buddies . Partners in crime. You have to donate to the rocket hub cloud funding for creating a micro bank for seed stock for Haiti's new seed bank . Herbs and spices .
They also do algae engineering into fuels and fragrances.
It is pretty labby
They have big tanks and plenty of fancy microscopes . Generators, lights,,bells and whistles.

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