Agenda

Screening of the documentary "WATER - The Strangest Liquid" and discussion.

PROGRAMME

• 16:00 Introduction

Achille Giacometti
ECLT Director, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Francesca Tarocco
NICHE Director, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

• 16:15 Film screening
• 17:15 Discussion and Q&A session

Moderator:

Stefano Bonetti
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Discussants:
Anders Nilsson
Stockholm University / Stanford University

Francesco Sciortino
University of Rome “La Sapienza”

Mikael Agaton
Director / Agaton Film

Movie synopsis:
"WATER - The Strangest Liquid"
​AGATON FILM production
A film by Mikael Agaton and Annika Dopping​, Sweden, 2021 / 58'

This documentary reveals stunning and groundbreaking discoveries about the most vital of substances, the one that constitutes most of ourselves: water. Its remarkable properties define everything that lives on the planet, yet water is not at all understood. Its mysterious properties have puzzled international science for centuries, given rise to many schools of thinking and created severe controversy in the scientific community.

In this film the Swedish professor in physics at Stanford and Stockholm Anders Nilsson and his team of dedicated researchers enters the world of molecules and atoms under extreme conditions, and insist on designing and pursuing an experiment that nobody has considered possible. We follow their scientific journey from the hypothesis of two liquids from Prof. Francesco Sciortino towards the ultimate answer to why we are here at all: why life can exist on the planet.

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Photo Description: A few layers of strongly bonded water molecules create the crucial surface tension in water, enabling it to carry enormous weight in relative terms such as this razor blade of steel.
Photo credits: Gert Jack Andersson / from "WATER - The strangest liquid" Agaton Film / 2021