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Garth Jennings: Making Zero Gravity

Garth Jennings is a British writer, director, producer, actor, artist and author. Garth began his directing career in music videos, followed by the feature films, The Hit

Chloé Zhao: Live At The Academy Museum

This episode of FLOAT with guest Chloé Zhao was recorded live from the stage of the David Geffen Theater at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, inaugurating their program,

Kalina Christoff: The Flip-Flopping of the Creative Mind

Dr. Kalina Christoff is a Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia where she runs the Cognitive Neuroscience of Thought Laboratory. She has studied v

Walter Murch: The Swamp and Sunny Upland of Consciousness

Walter Murch is a film editor, a director, writer, and sound designer. For his work on Apocalypse Now he won the Academy Award for Best Sound and was also nominated for B

Lykke Li: Love and Neuroscience

Lykke Li is a singer, songwriter, and dancer. She was born in Sweden to artistic parents, her mother a photographer and her father a musician. The family traveled extensi

Gus Van Sant: People Sitting In Chairs

Gus Van Sant was born in Louisville, Kentucky and received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975.  Gus has an international reputation as a filmmaker, pain

Marco Iacoboni: Mirroring The World

Marco Iacoboni is a Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and the Director of the Neuromodulation Lab at UCLA's Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center. Marc

Tavares Strachan: Skepticism Is Spiritual

Tavares Strachan was born in Nassau, Bahamas, and now lives and works between New York City and Nassau. He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MF

Anil Seth: A Controlled Hallucination

Anil Seth is a Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. He is Co-Director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science and is

Nancy Baker Cahill: Tapping a Vein

Nancy Baker Cahill is a new media artist who examines power, selfhood, and embodied consciousness through drawing and shared immersive space. She is the Founder and Artis

Rodrigo Garcia: The Scent of An Idea

Born in Columbia and raised in Mexico, Rodrigo Garcia is an award-winning writer and director of the feature films Nine Lives, Albert Nobbs and Things You Can Tell Just B

Joe Walker: Paradoxes in Editing

Joe Walker was born in the UK and originally trained as a classical music composer. He switched to film editing, working for several years editing British films, televisi

Antonio Damasio: Lunch With Orson Welles

In this episode we speak with Dr. Antonio Damasio, who is perhaps one of the most influential neuroscientists of the last hundred years. His work has emphasized the role

Kasi Lemmons: Writing Ourselves

Kasi is an award-winning director, writer and actress who has been a staple in Hollywood for nearly three decades, most recently with her Oscar nominated film Harriet. He

Sam Harris: Thieves Entering an Empty House

In this episode of FLOAT we talk with Sam Harris. Sam is a public thinker, a neuroscientist, an author, a philosopher, and a podcaster. He hosts the incredibly popular Ma

Richard Lemarchand: The Uncharted Mind

In this episode, we speak with Richard Lemarchand. Richard is an accomplished video game designer and an Associate Professor in the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He was a

Welcome to FLOAT

Welcome to FLOAT! Acclaimed filmmaker Mary Sweeney and neuroscientist Jonas Kaplan explore the creative place where art and science meet. FLOAT is a series of conversatio