Transmutations: Visualizing Matter | Materializing Vision: Expanded Documentary

Transmutations is a multi-year project that explores the history, legacy and radioactivity of uranium mining during the Cold War in Canada and the US. Captured over the course of three years using 35mm motion picture film and digital technologies, the film reveals the mineral and the people whose lives have been impacted by uranium: ex-miners that toiled decades underground, Indigenous leaders and activists leading the charge to clean up the mines and the places that shifted the balance of power on a global scale.

With only a short introduction, the film contains no additional narration; Transmutations is intended to let the participants speak for themselves and of their lived experience with uranium.

Excerpts from the expanded documentary for “Transmutations: Visualizing Matter | Materializing Vision”

Photography & Radiation

Photography & Radiation is a personal journey by visual artist Jesse Andrewartha, who explores the history of the autoradiogram as he creates a new body of work, a series of uranium autoradiograms for the upcoming exhibition “Transmutations: Visualizing Matter | Materializing Vision”.

The Expedition

This short clip was prepared for the kickstarter campaign, and details the project expedition and its goals.

Brownbag session videos, Sony Pictures Imageworks 06/11/2021

I hosted an hour long lunchtime “Brownbag Session” on “Transmutations” for Sony Pictures Imageworks, presenting some of the stories behind the images. Accessible to attendees only.