Originally life was divided into very few categories. If it moved around, it was an animal. If it grew but didn't move around, it was a vegetable. If it didn't move or grow at all, it was mineral. This all changes in the late 17th century when a Dutchman named Antony van Leeuwenhoek developed the most powerful magnifying lenses on Earth. His lenses were capable of magnifying up to 270 times, and suddenly the invisible became visible. What he saw when he looked at the world through his lenses were tiny wildernesses teeming with microscopic life forms, organisms so small they couldn't be seen with the naked eye. van Leeuwenhoek decided these tiny things were living things because they moved around, but they lacked many of the hallmarks of animals of vegetables. Their bodies were unstable, often changing shape, many of them were green like plants, but moved around just like an animal, some were so small that you could fit 10,000 in a single grain of rice. van Leeuwenhoek affectionately called them "Animacules" or little animals, but what exactly these new, tiny life forms were would perplex the scientific community for centuries to come.

Drawing on imagery from the leading neuroscience labs around the world, Brain City is a visual journey through the vast avenues of the human brain. Displaying a hybrid compilation of brand new digital simulations, fly-throughs, and microscopic images of neurons from several major neuroscientific endeavors including Eyewire, The Human Brain Project, CLARITY, and Neurodome, the piece provides a sense of being surrounded by complex systems, inside and out, through a playful juxtaposition between the urban landscape and the inner pathways of the human brain.

Winslow is a Brooklyn-based film and virtual reality director, producer, and creative technologist. Winslow has always been fascinated with the possibilities of how the intersection of art and technology can elevate storytelling. After beginning his career as a film editor and modern dance composer, Winslow attended NYU's Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and delved into the world of creative technology soon after. He now has six years of experiential work under his belt, and Giant is his fifth VR project. Winslow's previous work includes interactive experiences for Google, Delta, Diesel, TED, Merrel, and Wired. While at Carbon Pictures in 2015, Winslow produced the Tribeca Film Festival Transmedia Award-winning documentary CLOUDS.

Giulia Grossmann weaves links between fiction and reality, blurs the boundaries between documentary, representation and staging.

From Native American to Proxima b, she takes an ethnographic look at phenomena of appropriation of myths and quests of utopias. Whether in the mountains, the jungle, the desert or the cosmos, his films connect man to his environment within the limits of the ecumene.

Broadcasts:
Season Video, Museum of Natural History in New York (image science festival), International Film Festival (FID Marseille), Environmental Film Festival Australia (EFFA), Short Side (Cine 104), Young Creation (The cenquatre), The Armory (Pasadena), Comfort Station (Chicago), FEST (Portugal), FIFEQ (Montreal), Escales, La Rochelle, RISC Marseille ...

Sally Warring is a biologist and postdoctoral research scholar at the American Museum of Natural History. She grew up in New Zealand and has a bachelor of science with honors in botany from the University of Melbourne in Australia and a Ph.D. in biology at New York University where she studied the genetics and genomics of microscopic parasites. In (some) of her spare time she collects samples of water from various locations in New York City and the surrounding areas and documents the free-living microscopic organisms found within. She posts the images and videos to an Instagram account called @pondlife_pondlife. You can learn more about the project at www.pondlifepondlife.com.

Noah Hutton is a film director and founder of the website The Beautiful Brain. He has presented on art and neuroscience at the Venice Biennale, Impakt Festival, Society for Neuroscience, Wellcome Collection, Rubin Museum of Art, and elsewhere. In 2015 he was named a Salzburg Global Fellow in Neuroscience & Art, and created Brain City, a multi-platform installation in Times Square commissioned by the Times Square Arts Alliance. He is in the eighth year of work on his film Bluebrain, a 10-year documentary centering on the Blue Brain Project, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Previously he directed the award-winning documentary features Deep Time(SXSW 2015) and Crude Independence (SXSW 2009). Noah graduated from Wesleyan University, where he studied art history and neuroscience.