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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, 3d cgi, live action and animation, digital compositing, science, magnetic fields, visualisation, experimental short film, filmmaker, artist collective, artist

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**Magnetic Movie** a film by Semiconductor

[Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt](https://semiconductorfilms.com)

in production

![Magnetic Movie, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/magneticmovie01.jpg)

pre-production concept still

### animate! synopsis

The remarkable secret life of invisible interplanetary magnetic fields, revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries in man’s visible environment. All action takes place around the NASA Space Sciences Laboratories, set to recordings of space scientists excitedly describing their visualisation techniques.

### key credits

**director**
Semiconductor

### Semiconductor

#### short biography

Since 1999 Semiconductor, comprising Ruth Jarman & Joseph Gerhardt, have exhibited, screened and performed digital animations which reveal our physical world in flux. Their work has been seen extensively, from Tate Britain and ICA London to the San Francisco International Film Festival, Transmediale Berlin and the Venice Biennale. Recent fellowships and residencies have supported site-specific work, including research and experimentation at the NASA Space Sciences Laboratories UC Berkeley, California. Semiconductor are based in Brighton.

June 2006

#### artist’s website

[Semiconductor](http://www.semiconductorfilms.org)

Semiconductor's website

### a film by Semiconductor

### direction

**director**
Semiconductor

© Semiconductor 2006

[![Magnetic Movie, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/magneticmovie01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/magneticmovie01.jpg)

pre-production concept still

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[![Magnetic Movie, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/magneticmovie02.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/magneticmovie02.jpg)

pre-production concept still

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[![Magnetic Movie, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/magneticmovie03.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/magneticmovie03.jpg)

pre-production concept still

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### technical

#### process summary

Composited 3D CGI, live-action and hand mapping.

**Magnetic Movie** film, stills and other materials © Semiconductor 2006