Lumia (2008)

Thomas Wilfred almost made it. He was not the first, or the last, to try to bottle light in an instrument and to play it like music. For two decades he hauled his steamer trunks of equipment around the country and transfixed people with his strange and beautiful projections. It was the golden age of invention. Electricity was the new religion. This energy infected the arts. Inspired by occult philosophies from Blavatsky and Ouspensky, and scientific theories of Einstein and Heisenberg, Wilfred tried to express the world beyond the material. He inspired many. The few who remain tell the tale of struggle and invention, obsession and anonymity. They all have fascinating stories to tell - of odd experiments, strange devices, and sorties into other dimensions.