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The images on this site are original, conceptual artworks made to set a mood — the cinema, the workshop, the night sky, the physics. None of them is a photograph of a real device, a real person, or a real demonstration, and none should be read as evidence for any claim. They are illustrations, nothing more. We keep that distinction explicit on purpose: in a subject this prone to wishful thinking, a picture should never be mistaken for proof.

We chose an atmospheric, slightly nostalgic style deliberately. It reflects the era the documentary looks back to — the mid-century workshop, the analogue projector, the ambiguous light on the horizon — without pretending to document anything that happened. Think of these as the visual equivalent of a book jacket: they set a tone for the reading, and they make no claim to be the reality inside.

Artistic close-up of a vintage film projector lens with a warm beam of light — The projector. A reminder that documentary is, first, a medium of persuasion — light, framing and music — before it is a medium of proof.

A cluttered mid-century inventor's workshop at night — The workshop. An evocation of the lone-inventor setting the film romanticises — imagined, not documentary.

Conceptual render of concentric rings with rollers, an illustration only — Rings and rollers. A stylised impression of how the SEG is *described* — explicitly not a schematic, and not something that works.

A faint disc-shaped light in a misty night sky — A light in the sky. “Unidentified” means unidentified — a mood piece about folklore, not a record of a craft.

A dark chalkboard with faint abstract physics marks — The chalkboard. The real, testable physics of energy is more interesting than the myth — see the physics page.

Empty cinema seats beneath a glowing blank screen — The auditorium. Where belief and storytelling meet — the subject of Free Energy in Film.

Why a picture is never proof

It is worth dwelling on the point these images are chosen to illustrate, because it sits at the heart of the whole subject. A photograph or a piece of film shows only that an image was captured — not what produced it, and not that anything extraordinary occurred. A glowing disc in the sky could be a lens flare, a balloon, a drone, a planet, or a deliberate effect. A spinning apparatus on a bench tells you nothing about where its power comes from. This has always been true, and in an age of routine digital manipulation it is truer than ever: an impressive image is easy to make and proves nothing on its own. That is exactly why science relies on measurement, controls, and independent replication rather than on how convincing something looks. Whenever a claim leans heavily on striking visuals, that is a reason to ask harder questions, not fewer.

About these images

Because this is an independent, unofficial site, we do not reproduce stills, posters or artwork from the documentary itself, and we hold no rights to it. Everything here was generated for this project purely to illustrate our own editorial pages. If you are looking for material connected to the film, consult its IMDb page rather than treating these impressions as records of anything real. And for the ideas behind them, see Watching Critically.