Ruth Jarman Movies

Natural magnetic fields are described by NASA scientists.

Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files made accessible via...

Black Rain is sourced from images collected by the twin satellite, solar mission, STEREO. Here we see the HI (Heliospheric Imager) visual data as it...

20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and...

The earth never sleeps. The duo Semiconductor distils research data on earth movements and animates them in a five-channel installation. In a dark...

A short films where cities are made of and controlled by sound. Every detail of an urban landscape is built by the sonic pressures of an oncoming...

Short experimental animated film by by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt

Experimental animated film made for the Palazzo Zenobio at the Venice Biennale in 2003

Retropolis is a city where the dust never settles and the last few light bulbs are fighting for survival. Transforming London into a modern Sci-Fi...

Light is a fascinating phenomenon. Without light, there would be no cinema, no film – and no life. So light is at the origin of everything, and...

Songlines sung by earthquakes.

Heliocentric uses time-lapse photography and astronomical tracking to plot the sun’s trajectory across a series of landscapes. The entire...

Shot in Cappadocia in Turkey when Ruth and I were on holiday in November '08. Most of it was shot around the town of Goreme.

By asking a group of space physicists the unanswerable, Semiconductor reveal the hidden motivations driving scientists to the outer limits of human...

Presented as a fictional documentary, the sound film All the Time in The World sees the millions of years that have shaped and formed the land,...

Geologically, layers of earth form over thousands of years. The processes are almost imperceptible to humans. A research project in a Spanish quarry...

The Sound of Microclimates reveals the sights and sounds of a series of unusual weather patterns in the Paris of today. Here, architecture has become...

An extract of our floor projected HD video installation. It consists of five parts that can be seen as either a single screen or installed as...