Inside the Light: The Mystery of Light in Quantum Physics (2011)

The documentary is about one of the mysteries which have fascinated mankind since the beginnings: the nature of light. By visiting the laboratories of two of the most important quantum physics research groups, who are led respectively by Professor Serge Haroche at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and by Professor Wolfgang Lange at the University of Sussex in Brighton, the documentary tries to describe the world of the infinitely small, with its paradoxes and its laws. Through a symbolic and metaphorical use of images drawn from everyday life, the documentary makes a poetic portrait of the quantum world, addressing topics such as the interaction between light and matter at the smallest possible level, the creation and destruction of photons, the quantum jumps, the entanglement.