# animate! › Films › Tulips at Dawn by Rosie Pedlow

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/tulipsatdawn/

Discovery terms: 2000s animation, archival footage, 2d digital animation, rostrum camera, science, chemistry, technology, representation, poetry film, filmmaker, artist filmmaker

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**Tulips at Dawn** a film by Rosie Pedlow

[Rosie Pedlow](http://www.folkprojects.net)

2002, 3 min 24 sec

![Tulips at Dawn, still: the sign](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/tulipsatdawn01.jpg)

the sign

### a film by Rosie Pedlow

### animate! synopsis

Diagrams of chemistry apparatus and educational film footage react and combine in this quirky interpretation of the poem *Modes of Representation* by Nobel Laureate chemist Roald Hoffmann.

The film illustrates how technology changes the way we represent the world, with results that prove ironic and inconclusive.

### key credits

**director**
Rosie Pedlow

**based upon**
Tulips at Dawn by Roald Hoffman

**narrator**
Peter Blegvad

**editor**
Joe King

**sound designer**
Joe King

**Tulips at Dawn** film, stills and other materials © Rosie Pedlow 2002