As wireless technology keeps expanding the debate surrounding the health impacts of electromagnetic waves keeps growing. Filmed in France, Israel, Sweden, and the United States, the new documentary SURROUNDED BY WAVES uses an elegant blend of interviews, archives, experiments and 3D animation to investigate what is known, and unknown, about the potential risks.

Around the world scientists are exploring areas as cognitive troubles, sleep disturbances, risks of neurodegenerative diseases, brain tumors, cardiac rhythm abnormalities, disturbances of the immune system, and even decreases in fertility. In SURROUNDED BY WAVES we meet a number of experts in the field, including Dr. Andrew Marino of Louisiana State University's Health Services Center; Joe Wiart, a physicist employed at Orange Labs in France; and Professor Rony Seger, a biologist at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. In Sweden, Olle Johansson, professor of neuroscience at The Karolinska Institute studies electro hypersensitivity, officially recognized in Sweden as a disability.

From the fields produced by electrical appliances to Wi-Fi, our daily environment exposes us to all sorts of radiation, the ramifications of which we are still discovering. And as we wait for an accurate evaluation, SURROUNDED BY WAVES provides both a subtle observation of society's growing distrust of its industries, and the crucial role of science in the debate.

"This film is as much about human nature and its intractability as it is about invisible waves. ...Well worth viewing so that you can make up your own mind concerning the invisible waves and, perhaps, take appropriate reasonable precautions to safeguard your health." —Leonardo Reviews

★★★ "Avoiding the pitfalls of sensationalism, Ribot skillfully maintains a sober, ostensibly objective tone as he interviews researchers who conducted experiments to detect any effect that waves might have on plants, animals, or humans. ...it does raise worthwhile questions in a thoughtful, measured way. Recommended." —Video Librarian

"An informative and frustrating journey through contemporary science-not that the film is frustrating...that science is so unfree of outside corporate and political interference is not only frustrating but profoundly worrisome." —Anthropology Review Database