I have travelled around the world, exploring symmetry in different traditions and settings. Here is a series of short films about symmetry that I shot using an old camera and black-&-white film on my various research trips to Egypt, China, India, and Rome prior to 2015/16.
The videos were rough-cut together and shown at a small event at the Royal Institution in London, and some of the passages from the text were subsequently adapted for use in the British Museum's video, The Language of Symmetry (2023).
Despite their rough-hewn appearance & poor production values, I believe that these little 'philosophy bites' have stood the test of time.
How symmetry was interpreted in Ancient Egypt (2'36")
What a sandpile can tell us about life's patterns (2'08")
The Way that life works (2'08")
The paradox of the centre (5'11")
The sanctity of the pre-Christian cross (2'43")
The paradox of chance (1'46")
The symmetrles within symmetry (1'18")
The paradox of social systems (0'59"")
Order and chaos in the world around us (2'20")
The decision-making process (1'46")
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