The Tesla World Light (2017)
- Directed by
- Matthew Rankin
- Genre
- experimental film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 8 min
- Rating
- 5.2 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In black and white animation, the film imagines the final years of Nikola Tesla in 1905 New York. He pleads with J.P. Morgan for funding and tends to a pigeon he loves. The story uses Tesla's own words from his letters and interviews.
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What happens
The Tesla World Light (French: Tesla : lumière mondiale) is an 8-minute 2017 black and white avant-garde film by Montreal director Matthew Rankin imagining the latter days of inventor Nikola Tesla in 1905 in New York City. Rankin has stated that he was interested in exploring Tesla's optimistic utopian vision. The film is a fanciful amalgamation of elements from Tesla's life including his 1905 pleadings for J.P. Morgan to continue funding his World Wireless System and his love for a pigeon. Rankin has stated that "everything in the film is drawn from something [Tesla] wrote or said." The film uses excerpts of Tesla's actual letters to Morgan, which the filmmaker found in the Library of Congress; even a reference to Tesla falling in love with an "electric pigeon" was based on an interview with Tesla, according to Rankin. The film is produced by Julie Roy for the National Film Board of Canada. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Atoms in search of immateriality (2018)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.