Inflow/Outflow, 2025

Inflow/Outflow (2025) by French filmmaker Roman Hill translates microscopic realities into monumental projections. Illumination magnifies chemical reactions filmed through polarized light, expanding them to an architectural scale. Color and texture cascade like slow galaxies, enveloping surfaces in living pigment. Hill’s imagery, neither abstract nor representational, invites contemplation of unseen beauty, the quiet intelligence of matter in transformation. By revealing the sublime within the small, the work bridges science and mysticism. Projected onto Riyadh’s urban fabric, it turns concrete into skin, metal into film. Hill calls it “a portrait of energy itself,” and indeed it feels elemental: creation and dissolution rendered in luminous motion.