With director Josef Gatti, the boundary between artistic expression and scientific experiment dissolves in the visually stunning Phenomena—or perhaps he aims to show that under certain conditions they are one and the same. Through experiments with electricity, magnetism and other forces, he generates striking visual effects. It may look like magic, or at least like digital visual effects, but every image is real. A film that demands to be seen on the big screen, dazzling in its ability to reveal the extraordinary within the ordinary.