Working under the moniker "Semiconductor," British-based artists Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt have been experimenting in film and performance since the late 1990s. Their "Magnetic Movie," a faux documentary, was born during an artists' residency at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley. To create the film, Jarman and Gerhardt dubbed scientist interviews over lab footage that was animated by the artists to evoke magnetic fields. Though almost nothing in "Magnetic Movie" corresponds to real ... (more)