Films
Founded in 1934, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic, not-for-profit grant making institution based in New York City. Sloan's program in Public Understanding of Science, Technology & Economics supports various media to commission, develop, produce, and distribute new work mainstreaming science and technology to reach a wide, non-specialized audience. Watch award-winning Sloan short films here.
![The Sound of Silence](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/Sound_of_Silence.jpg)
The Sound of Silence
A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
![The Stanford Prison Experiment](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/Stanford-Prison.jpg)
The Stanford Prison Experiment
In 1971, Stanford Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand.
![To Dust](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/To_Dust.jpg)
To Dust
A mourning Hasidic widower enlists a reluctant biology professor in his obsessive quest to understand what exactly will happen to his young wife's body as it returns to dust.
![Valley of Saints](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/Valley-of-Saints.jpg)
Valley of Saints
War and poverty force two men to flee Kashmir. But a military crackdown derails their escape. Waiting for conditions to change, they discover a mysterious woman, braving the curfew to research the dying lake.
![Whaling City](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/Whaling-City.jpg)
Whaling City
An independent commercial fisherman must fight to save his boat, his livelihood, and his way of life.