This was theme was also discussed in 2010 -
https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/pipermail/frameworks/2010-December/subj
ect.html#2337
The 1998 Oberhausen Short Film festival's special programme Useful Images
(curated by Fred Truniger) engaged with these issues in some depth. Full
details are in
Dear Frameworks,
Re. films about or evocative of physics or astronomy. Jim Davis¹s films are
suggestive of cosmic genesis, plasma energy, or ³liquid² light, with waves
of color. Especially Color Dances (1952), Becoming (1955), Energies (1957),
Impulses (1959). For more on Davis and his often