TONY GRAYSON

Watch as humans person, Wallace L. Graybill, fumbles to retrieve money coins for his important research. It is like eating food for you. Festivals: SXSW Midnight Shorts ‘17 Hell’s Half Mile ’17 – Studio 23 Art Instillation Imagine Science Film Festival ‘17 Labocine Video Magazine – ‘Laboratory Rituals’ - May ’17 Issue, SXSW '17 --- The film is a darkly comedic expression of the dismalness and seeming impossibility of acquiring governmental funding for scientific research due to the recession in 2008. “’Never in my 18–20 years of being funded by the NIH did the funding cut-off leave such a large percentage of applicants unfunded… You get a score like Darcy’s and you find yourself in an unfund-able position, and you have to say that there’s something wrong with the system, not the individual,” says Stuart Firestein of Columbia University’s department of biological sciences. (Wadman, Meredith. “Closing Arguments.” Nature, 5 February 2009, 650-651.) --- written, directed, edited by tony grayson. music by dan wilcop. performed by dennis r. grayson. post-production supervisor michael j. gerrity.