Evidence in Motion / Four research documentaries / 2026
Four questions. Four short films.
An injured lung cell, a failed histological section, an old chemistry friendship and a thirteenth-century prescription each begin with different evidence. The films move from the scenes to the experiments and historical sources behind them.
FILM 02 / 02:00
What a Bubble Can Do
A moving air–liquid interface meets a monolayer of epithelial cells. What can the experiment really tell us?
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FILM 03 / 02:00
Two Materials. No Section.
Two materials, one intended histological block, and a microtome that never delivered a usable section.
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FILM 04 / 02:00
The Laboratory We Carried With Us
The people, experiments and shared curiosity behind Chem Squad and the QU ACS chapter.
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FILM 05 / 02:00
Making Medicines Keep
Historical syrups, substitution and trust, grounded in an accepted paper on Ayyubid–Mamluk Cairo.
Watch the two-minute film ↗The films move between the laboratory, the friendships formed there and the history of medicines. Each has a route back to the photographs, studies or historical questions that first prompted it. Explore the wider collection of scientific films ↗