The film’s dominance has put significant pressure ... Singh recounted how a particular scene, where his character cuts the umbilical cord on a pregnant woman, deeply disturbed him.

Eleven years after first screening his work at SUFF, Umbilical World represents a curation of Firth’s most popular shorts to date, each bookended by brand new transitional animations.

A kind of umbilical cord between different quantum states can be found in some materials. Researchers at TU Wien have now shown that this "umbilical cord" is generic to many materials. It is a ...