DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

From an early age, I have experienced the world through sound and vibration.
My studies as a composer gave me a language for this — resonance, harmonics, and tuning —
and revealed music as a living system of energy.

When I discovered Nikola Tesla’s work, I recognized that his understanding of energy was rooted in many of the same principles that had transformed my own understanding of sound.

Tesla’s discoveries were grounded in observation and experiment. He showed that resonance can amplify energy, that standing waves can be generated and sustained, and that electrical systems can be tuned.

These observations came directly from the instruments he built and the phenomena they revealed. In reading his work, I came to understand Tesla as someone who perceived the world through vibration.

Pictures of Infinity seeks to make this hidden language of vibration visible and audible.

I explore these principles using the same instruments Tesla worked with, and by reproducing several of his original experiments — including one that has never been reproduced before — so that audiences can witness directly what Tesla perceived. I also use cymatics to make sound visible, and draw on these patterns when composing the music.

Through my research at the heart of this film, I came to understand that Tesla worked on forms of energy transmission based not on extraction and consumption, but on resonance and harmony with the natural world.

This is what his experiments reveal, and what the film explores: a radically different relationship to energy than the one we inherited, and one that may still be possible to reclaim.

This is why I am making Pictures of Infinity.