Working with computer scientist Nestor Burtnyk, Foldes directed this ten-minute movie coping with the concept of food inequality. La Faim would win many international awards, including a particular Jury Prize on the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, and an Academy Award nomination. In the early 1960s, Bell Labs is at the forefront of research into computer arts and graphics. Researcher Ken Knowlton, utilizing the Lab’s IBM 7094 mainframe computer, developed a specialised language for pc animation known as BEFLIX. Some of these films are considered landmark works, such as Man and his World, which showed at the 1967 World’s Fair in…