Mirror Matter consists of a fictional visual meditation about contemporary science from a retro-futurist perspective. The film begins with a digital rendering of the Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory in Japan, which depicts water pools inside a cylindrical tube filled with mirrors, through which reflections of neutrinos are produced to achieve the speed of light. The slow panning movement gives a sense of the immensity of the nearly 13,000 photo-multipliers that inhabit this strange vessel. Another frame depicts the Hadron Collider at CERN, which is the largest particle accelerator and also the biggest scientific facility on the planet. Its architecture envisioned by the artist through LIDAR scans, produces a dynamic, transparent imprint in three dimensions. The work also documents and at times imagines the processes at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
