Neutrino – the poet among elementary particles
Fascinated by an eccentric elementary ‘ghost particle’ (the neutrino), filmmakers Hannie van den Bergh and Jan van den Berg go on a research trip to the Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Detector, a prestigious physics experiment at a depth of more than a thousand metres in a mountain in Japan. In the village on that mountain, international scientists live and work together with local people. Thus two worlds come together that at first sight have nothing to do with each other.
Neutrino is a poetic-philosophical documentary that shows the interconnectedness of an elementary particle, ‘countless gods’, picking chestnuts, pixels on a computer screen and the art of tofu making. In encounters with colourful scientists and villagers, the film shows how the neutrino manages to bridge the gap between international scientific research and everyday life in a mountain village, between the invisible quantum world and tangible reality, and between the will to know and the magic of not knowing.
The film was made with a contribution from NPO Fund, Nikhef, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and Stichting Physica.
Nikhef researcher and programme leader of the Dark Matter/XENON group Patrick Decowski, among others, will guide the filmmakers through the world of the neutrino.
