Tracing Light
Light, without which life itself is impossible, is the working medium and obsession of director Thomas Riedelsheimer. In Tracing Light, science and art interact to illuminate the birth of stars and secrets of the molecular world. At a radical moment in physics, we bring together leading scientists, and artists who sculpt with light – from the Max Planck Institute, Erlangen, Glasgow University’s Extreme Light Group and from western reaches of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, in a quest to understand and embody the ineffable. New questions are given voice, visually and sensually, in the language of matter; in the language of film – light.