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Oct 16
13th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival

Organized By Imagine Science Films

About Event
Event starts at October 16, 2020 at 7:00 PM EDT and ends at October 23, 2020 at 11:59 PM EDT

Please complete a short anonymous survey about how you engage with films and what you are watching during the ISFF13.

The theme of the 13th Imagine Science Film Festival is "MIGRATION"

The flight of the arctic tern, the multi-generational travels of the monarch butterfly, the return of eels to the streams they hatched in. The arduous journeys of displaced peoples. Data systems in flux. The complex movements of cells, from embryonic origins to developed organisms. This year we seek MIGRATIONS of all kinds. Though this subject is the special focus of this year...

Please complete a short anonymous survey about how you engage with films and what you are watching during the ISFF13.

The theme of the 13th Imagine Science Film Festival is "MIGRATION"

The flight of the arctic tern, the multi-generational travels of the monarch butterfly, the return of eels to the streams they hatched in. The arduous journeys of displaced peoples. Data systems in flux. The complex movements of cells, from embryonic origins to developed organisms. This year we seek MIGRATIONS of all kinds. Though this subject is the special focus of this year's festival, we'll be featuring films, installations, and online works of any and all other genres, methodologies, and subjects, as always that push the boundaries of the science narrative - embracing the movement of the Science New Wave.

To learn more about the festival, visit the festival website at imaginesciencefilms.org/ny13

How do I attend the 13th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival?

The festival is FREE for scheduled programs below. We encourage you to RSVP so you can simply receive reminders from us a few hours before the program start time.

RSVP for each program gives you FREE access to Film & Conversations that appear as different windows. These RSVPs are specific to each program but they do not guarantee entrance. You need to start the movie within the program start/end time window. If a program is from 7-10pm, you can access the film starting at 7pm but will not be able to start the movie after 10pm. The window of time you have to watch a film is indicated. Most programs are limited to 500 attendees and we will inform you if there is only 50 seats left or less. If we reach quota, no one will be allowed in and the screening will be indicated as SOLD OUT.

REPLAY Festival Pass (for the entire festival): The Imagine Science REPLAY pass allows you to watch films and conversations after the live events and only for the duration of the festival thru October 25. Note that some of our films may be SOLD OUT as the festival week takes place and this will be indicated so make sure to check before buying your pass.

Ticketing starts on October 1. We will release a limited amount of REPLAY passes. Note that films with REPLAY passes are only accessible once the scheduled screening has taken place.

You need to be in the United States to be able to watch films of the festival A few films will be limited for viewing to only New York and indicated in the Program info. Filmmaker Q&A  conversations will be published on our social media.

How to watch festival films?

Click on a program below and you will see several thumbnails that correspond to the various sub-parts of the program. Click on Film, Panel, Webinair and watch at scheduled timed.

What if I am not in the US?

Most films are restricted to the US because we're ultimately a New York festival and need to keep it this way for many reasons related to the concerns from filmmakers, producers, and distributors. However, some creators have expressed an interest to share their films with the world at-large.

For those not in the United States, we are making a few films available worldwide in a few playlists from October 16-25

  • ISFF13 Worldwide - selection of films of the 13th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival.
  • Symbiosis films made over the last few years by pairs of scientists and filmmakers short films created over the course of 1-week during the festival.
  • Scenes: Capturing Scientific Data on Screen. Scenes serve as clips for teaching, documenting and preserving the accuracy of science through film. They are precisely unedited and raw. There are meant to be recycled and repositioned into a different context in which they can be framed as cinematic experiences.

Many of the films will then circulate in some of the Labocine Issues over the coming months or in some of our LIVE events so stay tuned. Once programmed at Imagine Science, it is important for us to help these films get out to the world in order to keep with our mission of promoting compelling scientific stories.

All of the panels and conversations will also be shared on our Vimeo channel and Facebook Live.

Why is this festival taking place this year?

We're living through a crisis and it has never been more important to find ways to communicate science through visual storytelling and spark conversations. We need to keep experimenting with new ways to bridge the worlds of science and cinema. We also need to prevent false or sensationalized information from reaching the public. Lastly, it is important to understand that science affects all of us in different ways, whether it is an individual, a society, or the world at-large. Even if virtual, the festival still embodies the spirit of New York City, inviting filmmakers, scientists, and audiences to take part in this grand experiment. We will still keep the spirit of a borderless festival by partnering with different institutions worldwide.

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Any questions about the festival - ticketing, programs or more - email us at hi@imaginesciencefilm.org

 

Event Day 1

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October 16, 2020

  • Opening Night: Celebrating Women in Science

    October 16, 2020 at 6:30 PM EDT
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    What is the program?

    6:30pm | Festival Opening Remarks & Symbiosis 2020 Announcement

    The evening kicks off with some opening remarks by our artistic director Alexis Gambis about this very special 13th edition. Our Symbiosis director Sophie Tintori will announce the Symbiosis pairs that will be working together for the week-long festival to make science films inspired by today's times.

    6:40pm | I Am A Mobile Element: A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier

    We spoke for 30 minutes with Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 2020 with Dr. Jennifer Doudna  for "the development of a method for genome editing." She speaks about her migratory tendencies, CRISPR-Cas9 technology and about the importance of science communication today.

    7pm |  Picture A Scientist Feature

    Ever wonder why female scientists are still a minority in the U.S.? In their eye-opening documentary "Picture a Scientist," directors Sharon Shattuck and Ian Cheney employ well-chosen personal histories and statistical data to investigate the issue and suggest ways to ameliorate the situation.

    9pm | A conversation with 'Picture A Scientist' directors Sharon Shattuck and Ian Cheney - moderated by Imagine Science Programming Coordinator Wangechi Ngugi

    PROGRAM LINEUP

    • Opening Remarks by Alexis Gambis & Sophie Tintori
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      The 13th Annual Imagine Science Film kicks off today and is themed Migration. Here from Sophie Tintori about the Symbiosis pairs this year.


    • I am a Mobile Element: A Conversation with Emmanuelle Charpentier
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      FILM 7:00 PM EDT

      2020 Nobel Prize laureate Emmnauelle Charpentier discusses her hybrid identity, nomadic life and career, jumping off CRISPR-Cas9 to discuss broader elements around mobile elements and migration around the science. 

      Directed by Alexis Gambis / Cinematography by Yosuke Eddie Hosoi / Editing & Animation by Gergo Vargo / Music by Garreth Chan

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    • Picture A Scientist
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      FILM 7:00 PM EDT

      In PICTURE A SCIENTIST, three leading women scientists overcome brutal harassment, institutional discrimination, and years of subtle slights to revolutionize the culture of science.


    • Opening Night Discussion with Sharon Shattuck and Ian Cheney
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      Ever wonder why female scientists are still a minority in the U.S.? In their eye-opening documentary "Picture a Scientist," directors Sharon Shattuck and Ian Cheney employ well-chosen personal histories and statistical data to investigate the issue and suggest ways to ameliorate the situation

      moderated by ISF programming coordinator, Wangechi Ngugi.

       

  • Earth: Feature

    October 16, 2020 at 10:00 PM EDT
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    A tunnel is dug through the Alps for a new rail line between Austria and Italy. Mountains in California are moved to build a new town. The popular white Carrara marble is quarried in northern Tuscany to become a tile or tabletop.  In seven locations in North America and Europe, we observe miners, engineers and foremen at work. They enjoy it—who wouldn’t like operating one of those massive excavators? Nevertheless, there's a feeling of unease. Sometimes a fossilized tree turns up and is saved for a museum—if the bulldozer hasn’t already smashed it, that is. When asked, the workers are well aware of the consequences for nature, climate and safety. But it’s work, and there's a demand for faster transport links, new houses and stone floors.  In closely observed, panoramic shots of plowing, hacking and roaring excavators, and in conversations with the people who operate them, the film ponders the question of how much earth has to make room for our demanding lifestyle

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    • Earth
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      FILM 10:00 PM EDT

      Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans – with shovels, excavators or dynamite. Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes people, in mines, quarries and at large construction sites, engaged in a constant struggle to take possession of the planet.

Event Day 2

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October 17, 2020

  • Animals Speak Up: Shorts & Conversation

    October 17, 2020 at 11:00 AM EDT
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    How well do we understand the animal realm: their behaviors, sounds, and patterns? If animals adopted a semi-human condition and could speak, would we listen to what they had to say? With these seven short films we invite you to see the world from their perspective.

    in partnership with Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School

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    • Something to Remember (Något att minnas)
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      A lullaby before the great disaster. Two pigeons visit a zoo without animals, a snail measures his blood pressure at the doctor, in the CERN laboratory something has gone terribly wrong. Six moments from our age, like memories of the world we leave behind.


    • Bend or Break
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      Two playful pandas demonstrate how to best survive earthquakes.


    • Mirror Test
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      The ‘mirror test’ is a behavioural science experiment in which an animal is presented with a mirror to see if they recognise their own reflection, or mistake the image for another animal. Corvid birds such as magpies and jackdaws have reportedly passed this test, yet it remains uncertain if the experiment proves that an animal is self-aware.

      In Mirror Test, a jackdaw explores a domestic interior, flitting between shelves and disrupting kitchen counters. Images of Jacky e...


    • Smiles
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      Sharks have gotten a raw deal. But don’t take my word for it, you can hear it right from the source in "Smiles". This in an inside look into the world of Sharks with interviews from the majestic creatures themselves. They have been portrayed as monsters, lifeless eating machines and in some cases tornadoes of death, and they just want a chance to tell their side of things.


    • The Whelming Sea
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      Three animal lives entangle at the edge of the sea. Horseshoe crabs spawn on eroded urban beaches, migrating shorebirds seek sustenance at a midpoint, and humans attempt to make a difference in this age of mass extinction.


    • Clebs (Mutts)
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      In a stray-dog refuge in Morocco, time seems to stand still for the 750 animals waiting to be adopted, their lives following a precise, monotonous routine.


    • Animals Speak Up: Conversation
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      Q&A with directors of the Shorts programs "Animals Speak Up"

      Bend or Break - Isaac Kerlow -Director/producer/writer
      Smiles - Steven Bednar -Director/Writer
      The Whelming Sea - Sean Hanley - Director/writer/producer
      Clebs - Halima Ouardiri - Director

      moderated by Yağmur Ünal


    • Weekend Kick-Off with Katayoun Chamany & the Eugene Lang College at The New School
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      As a tradition every year, Imagine Science Films partners with the Eugene Lang College at the The New School for our only weekend (Oct 17-18) programming. Katayoun Chamany is a biologist, educator, and social justice advocate who uses case studies, critical pedagogy, and STEAMD context to make biology relevant and tangible. She will join us later today for the Q&A with Deia Schlosberg's THE STORY OF PLASTIC.

  • The Fine Line Between Borders: Shorts & Conversation

    October 17, 2020 at 1:00 PM EDT
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    What is the program?

    How are limits defined and what is their power? Change, whether it be in territories, landscapes, weather, matter, or communication, has a meaningful impact on the dynamics of the world. From stormy shorelines to extraterrestrial communication, these short films explore the subtle yet complex state of transition.

    in partnership with Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School

    PROGRAM LINEUP

    • It's Going To Be Beautiful
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      Eight prototypes for a border wall stand on the US-Mexico border. To choose a winning design, Border Patrol officers and the military will attempt to climb, dig under, or breach the structures using techniques employed by immigrants and drug dealers.


    • The End of Suffering (a proposal)
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      Sofia is panicky, again. The Universe decides to contact her. An other-wordly dialogue. A planet symphony for Mars, where people dream awake and fight for love.


    • The Circadian Cycle
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      Using the dancing body as a metaphor, The Circadian Cycle examines morphology, biological rhythm and animal behaviour. The film charts a day from sunrise to evening, moving through cycles of nature, from nascence and awakening to predation and death. 


    • Os Olhos na mata e o gosto na água (The Eyes in the Woods and the Taste in the Water)
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      In Brazil, the inhabitants of Teewald, a German colony founded at the end of the 19th century, are still proud of their Germanic roots. Starting with the text of German-Turkish researcher Ilhami Paker, which uses irony to analyse different migratory movements, the film questions the complex process of constructing a national identity.


    • The Shoreline (Rivages)
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      A small island off the coasts of Brittany; the weather is stormy, the wind is blowing, and dark clouds are obscuring the sky. The sun highlights the shape of a tree, a house, a passer-by, for a brief instant. Then a thunderstorm breaks out…


    • The Fine Line Between Borders: Conversation
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      Q&A with directors of the short program "The Fine Between Borders"

      Luis Gutiérrez Arias / John Henry Theisen - It's Going to Be Beautiful

      Luciana Mazeto / Vinícius Lope - Os Olhos na mata e o gosto na água (The Eyes in the Woods and the Taste in the Water)

      Sophie Racine - The Shoreline (Rivages)

      moderated by ISF Programming Coordinator Wangechi Ngugi.


    • Sophie Racine on The Shoreline (RIVAGES)
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      Sophie Racine, director of RIVAGES (The Shoreline) part of the Shorts Program "The Fine Line Between Borders" shares a few thoughts about the film - "I was interested in the shoreline, this fluid line between a landscape and a seascape."

  • Once You Know: Feature & Conversation

    October 17, 2020 at 3:00 PM EDT
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    The intimate journey across the abyss of a world at the edge of climate-induced collapse

    in partnership with Sibersalz Festival and Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School.

    PROGRAM LINEUP

    • Once you know (Une fois que tu sais)
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      FILM 3:00 PM EDT

      Available only in the United States

      ONCE YOU KNOW is the intimate journey of director Emmanuel Cappellin across the abyss of a world at the edge of climate-induced collapse. His voyage into this uncharted territory is that of a whole generation turning to climate scientists, local democracy, grassroots initiatives, and mass rebellion in a courageous search for an exit.

      Once You Know: Conversation
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      Q&A with director Emmanuel Cappellin

      moderated by Irem Couchouron, Head of Films and Exhibitions at Sibersalz Festival and Alexis Gambis, ISF artistic director 

      in partnership with the Sibersalz Festival & Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School

  • The Story of Plastic: Feature & Conversation

    October 17, 2020 at 5:00 PM EDT
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    What is the program?

    Shedding new light on a pressing global challenge that threatens the life expectancy of animals, humans, and Earth itself.

    in partnership with Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School.

    moderated by Katayoun Chamany, Mohn Professor of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Eugene Lang College and ISF artistic director Alexis Gambis.

    PROGRAM LINEUP

    • The Story of Plastic
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      FILM 5:00 PM EDT

      Depicting a world rapidly becoming overrun with toxic material, THE STORY OF PLASTIC brings into focus an alarming, man-made crisis. Striking footage, original animations, and archival material combine in this timely documentary to point to the disastrous impact of the manufacture and use of plastics, shedding new light on a pressing global challenge that threatens the life expectancy of animals, humans, and Earth itself.


    • The Story of Plastic: Conversation
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      Conversation with director Deia Schlosberg

      moderated by Mohn Family Professor of Natural Sciences and Mathematics; Professor of Biology Katayoun Chamany at Eugene Lang College and ISF artistic director Alexis Gambis

  • The Great Green Wall: Feature & Conversation (New York Only)

    October 17, 2020 at 7:00 PM EDT
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    Academy Award-nominee Fernando Meirelles (City of God) and Malian musician Inna Modja take us on an epic journey to the frontline of the climate crisis along Africa's ambitious Great Green Wall.

    only available for viewing in New York

    in partnership with Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School

    PROGRAM LINEUP

    • The Great Green Wall
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      FILM 7:00 PM EDT

      Executive Producer Fernando Meirelles (Academy Award-Nominated Director of City of God & The Constant Gardener) and Malian musician Inna Modja take us on an epic journey along Africa's Great Green Wall — an ambitious vision to grow an 8,000km 'wall’ of trees stretching across the entire continent to fight back against runaway climate change, increasing conflict and mass migration.


    • The Great Green Wall: Conversation
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      STREAM 7:00 PM EDT

      Q&A with director Jared P. Scott

      moderated by ISF Programming Coordinator Wangechi Ngugi.

  • Jozi Gold: Feature & Conversation

    October 17, 2020 at 9:00 PM EDT
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    What is the program?

    The golden era has left 1.6 million people living on radioactive grounds, but one person is on a mission to force the gold industry to clean up.

    in partnership with Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School

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    • Jozi Gold
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      FILM 9:00 PM EDT

      The mines of Johannesburg have produced a third of all the gold mined in human history. But now the gold is running out, the mines are falling apart and the city must confront an environmental nightmare: Tons of radioactive waste that pollute the air and turn water into poison. Glamorous grandmother Mariette Liefferink is on a relentless mission to uncover the truth and force the gold industry to clean up it’s dangerous mess. The film follows Mariette’s journey from a housewife to...


    • Jozi Gold: Conversation
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      Q&A with directors Fredrik Gertten & Sylvia Vollenhaven

      moderated by ISF Programming Director Wangechi Ngugi

Event Day 3

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October 18, 2020

  • Exploration, Discovery, Invention: Shorts & Conversation

    October 18, 2020 at 11:00 AM EDT
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    A program full of inventions, oddities, and curiosities with an inside look at the untold story of one of the most important objects on the planet: the kilogram.

    in partnership with Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School

    PROGRAM LINEUP

    • The Last Artifact
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      It affects every aspect of our lives from the moment we are born, to the food we eat, the cars we drive, and the medicines we take. This object has helped send men to the moon, and satellites into space. It is an object unlike any other, the last of its kind. A literal constant in an ever-changing world, and the weight by which all others are measured. The Last Artifact follows the high-stakes race to redefine the weight of the world, and reveals the untold story of one of the most important ...


    • Obscura
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      Have you ever wondered how pictures are made? Obscura looks inside our camera to the creatures within, living lives defined by what they see through the lens. But what comes into focus when things change? The arrival of new camera components reveals the world is not as it seems. Are the photographs they produce really the whole picture?


    • Gravedad (Gravity)
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      Some days are light and some days are heavy.


    • Endless Forms Most Beautiful
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      A data driven exploration into the universal capacity for growth.


    • The Universe Within
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      From the Big-Bang, to understanding our place in the cosmos, we explore the Universe through the imagination of children. "The Universe Within" is a 4 episode series for kids made by kids, and the protagonists explain different astronomical concepts using metaphors invented by them, and create theories for the questions that have not yet been answered by science. Their explanations are illustrated by animations based on their own drawings so we can see how they imagine everything th...


    • Exploration, Discovery, Invention: Conversation
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      Q&A with directors

      moderated by Sacha Allen


    • The Last Artifact: A Conversation
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      A conversation with directors Jaime Jacobsen and Ed Watkins.

      Moderated by Sacha Allen


    • Matisse Gonzalez on Gravedad
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      Matisse Gonzalez, director of GRAVEDAD, part of the Shorts Program "Exploration, Discovery, Invention," shares a few thoughts about the gorgeous animation. In her own words, Matisse tells us that "in order to survive in this world, everyone needs something to grab onto."

  • The Colony: Feature & Conversation

    October 18, 2020 at 1:00 PM EDT
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    What is the program?

    A story about sisterhood and the evolution of communication in two of the most social creatures on earth: humans and ants.

    in partnership with Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School

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    • The Colony
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      THE COLONY is a story about sisterhood and the evolution of communication in two of the most social creatures on earth: humans and ants. In this film of a live performance, Mona struggles to reconnect with her estranged sister Hennie, and she turns to the ant colony for inspiration. With more than 500,000 ant sisters migrating, raiding, and even reproducing as one superorganism, an army ant colony appears to Mona as the paragon of successful social existence. Informed by scientific research o...


    • The Colony: Conversation
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      Q&A with director Anna Lindemann

      moderated by ISF programming consultant & filmmaker Nate Dorr

  • ORIGINS Pitch Session

    October 18, 2020 at 3:00 PM EDT
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    What is the program?

    Join us for our annual pitch session ORIGINS where a selection of filmmakers and scientists will share with us their works-in-progress to a panel of funders, distributors and producers specialized in scientific content . Get the behind the scenes look at what it takes to mold a scientific idea into a film. How and when do we decide on form - documentary, fiction, animation, hybrid and more.

    in partnership with Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School

    PROGRAM LINEUP

    • ORIGINS Pitch Session
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      This year, we will present the first ORIGINS session inspired by our prior Market day. We will hear from a select number of science film projects in various stages of development, production, and distribution. Learn ...

  • The World of Thinking: Feature & Conversation

    October 18, 2020 at 7:00 PM EDT
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    In 'The World of Thinking' five of the most brilliant scientists of our time take us on their quest for a revolutionary breakthrough. They are gathered at the world famous Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the former academic home of Einstein. What drives them, which hazards do they have to face, and how do they push themselves beyond existing boundaries?

    In partnership with Pioneer Works and InScience - International Science Film Festival.

    7pm: Screening  

    8pm: Following the screening, join us for a conversation with renown physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed, featured in the film, and Astrophysicist and Director of Sciences at Pioneer Works, Prof. Janna Levin.

    More details about the joint program with Pioneer Works and how to attend here.

    Followed by a conversation with the filmmakers.

    PROGRAM LINEUP

    • The World of Thinking
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      FILM 7:00 PM EDT

      Five of the most brilliant scientists of our time, gathered at the famous Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, take us on their search for a groundbreaking discovery. They face an enormous challenge. Because how do you go beyond the existing frontiers of human knowledge? By becoming part of their world, we experience that a scientific breakthrough is not merely a light bulb-moment. It is a demanding process with emotional setbacks, anxiety and insecurities. But it is also driven by boun...


    • The World of Thinking: Conversation (Janna Levin & Nima Arkani-Hamed)
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      Following the screening, join us for a conversation with world-renown physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed, featured in the film, and Astrophysicist and Director of Sciences at Pioneer Works, Janna Levin.

      speaker bios:

      Nima Arkani-Hamed is one of the leading particle physics phenomenologists of the generation. He is concerned with the relation between theory and experiment. His research has shown how the extreme weakness of gravity, relative to other forces of nature, mi...


    • The World of Thinking: Conversation with Filmmakers
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      A Conversation with directors Misha Wessel & Thomas Blom

      moderated by ISF artistic director Alexis Gambis and InScience director Daisy van de Zande

      in partnership with InScience International Science Film Festival Nijmegen

  • Air Conditioner

    October 18, 2020 at 9:00 PM EDT
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    One day, air conditioners in the Angolan capital Luanda start to mysteriously fall from the buildings. 

    “Air Conditioner” is a journey of mystery and reality, a critique of social classes and how we live together in vertical hopes, in the heart of a city that is past-present-future.

    in partnership with Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School

    PROGRAM LINEUP

    • Air Conditioner
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      FILM 9:00 PM EDT

      Available only in the United States

      When the air-conditioners in the city of Luanda mysteriously began to fall, Matacedo (security guard) and Zezinha (maid) embarked on a mission to retrieve the boss’s AC by the end of the day. This mission leads them to Kota Mino’s electrical supply store, which is secretly assembling a complex memory retrieval machine.


    • Air Conditioner: Conversation
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      STREAM 10:30 PM EDT

      Q&A with director Fradique

      moderated by ISF programming consultant Özge Calafato

Event Day 4

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October 19, 2020

  • Beneath the Surface: Shorts & Conversation

    October 19, 2020 at 11:00 AM EDT
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    What is the program?

    What is exposed is not necessarily what is meant to be perceived. The sounds that we hear, the stories that we tell and the pictures that we see have deeper meaning than what is shown on the outside. From underwater clams to Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims, these short films aim to unveil what lies beyond what we can humanly see.

    PROGRAM LINEUP

    • Metamorphoses
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      The Warsaw University Botanic Garden is a kind of laboratory for an artist, a researcher and a scientist. The fractal shapes of plants, evolutionary chaos, the fascinating way of plant reproduction – the people in the film encounter it all this in the space of one of the smallest botanic gardens in the world.


    • Pripyat Piano
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      After Chernobyl tragedy, fifty thousand people were forced to leave their hometown Pripyat. Thirty years after the disaster, most of the things from Pripyat is stolen or wasted. One of the few things which has left are pianos, as they were too heavy to move away. Who would believe they are still able to play?


    • Helfer
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      "Helfer” is about a young woman who is struggling with anxiety and recurring nightmares that she wants to end. She is seeking a helper, who offers an alternative solution, but in the process she must confront her biggest fears. The film details their relationship in a surreal world through symbolic events.


    • La bobine 11004
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      In 1946, eight months after the atomic bombings, an American army film team made a feature documentary in Japan. Several reels are shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki including the “11004”.


    • Fat Kathy
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      Available only in the United States

      In the city water pump there are 8 clams. The lives of millions of people depend on them. In case of contamination of water supply, the clams will close and automatically shut off the water for the city. The main scientist-malacologist watches over the system's operation. 
      The film is a philosophical essay on dependence people from nature and the world around them.


    • Decorum
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      Fashion model Hinata wants to get at the bottom of her uneasiness but something is hindering her. A designer gives her advice, a doctor tries to get her attention and all claim to know what she needs. The result of an old trauma seems only to be the tip of the iceberg.


    • Nitrate
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

       When the fireworks inflame the memory of a war survival.


    • Beneath the Surface: Conversation
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      STREAM 11:00 AM EDT

      Q&A with directors

      moderated by Sacha Allen


    • Eliška Cílková on Pripyat Piano
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      STREAM 11:00 AM EDT

      Eliška Cílková director of PRIPYAT PIANO, part of the Shorts Program "Beneath The Surface," shares a few thoughts about her film - "I visited Chernobyl as a musical composer, did some field recordings and recorded abandoned pianos."

  • Far From Home: Shorts & Conversation

    October 19, 2020 at 1:00 PM EDT
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    For many, home is more than a physical place; it's people, experiences, landscapes, sounds, and smells that have been imprinted in their memory and have shaped who they are. So what does it mean to be away from home, and once we're displaced how do we connect with our origins?

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    • Baba
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      Captivating portrait of one of the first Turkish immigrants in the Dutch cultural sector, interviewed by his daughter amid a colourful fashion collection inspired by his life. About the complexity of migration, revolving around a migrant who never thought migrating was complicated.


    • At Home But Not at Home
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      Sanzgiri's father was 18 when India ousted the last remaining Portuguese colonizers from Goa in 1961. Combining 16mm with drone footage, desktop screenshots, and Skype interviews with his father, Sanzgiri utilizes various modes of seeing at a distance to question identity, the construction of memory and anti-colonial solidarity across continents.


    • Here and there (Aquí y allá)
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      Aquí y allá is an essay film that studies what being at home means. The filmmaker uses photographs, maps and Google Earth to connect places around the globe; not just from her own past, but also from the complex migratory history of her family that stretches back to Hitler-era Germany and Mao's China. Reality and the virtual prove equally confusing: however much you zoom in, you never get closer to home.


    • You Play Here
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      You Play Here is a hybrid project exploring the themes of community, migration, and public space. Concerned with concepts related to migration, I created You Play Here in order to fully explore one question: does playing a sport in a public space work to create community and camaraderie amongst immigrant groups?

      The project features an installation composed of an analogue map, made interactive with the use of an Augmented Reality (AR) application. This customized map displ...


    • The Quiet
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      When an astronaut ponders on the quietude of space, he comes upon a startling self-realisation. The truth is written in the stars, but what will he uncover?


    • Far From Home: Conversation
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      STREAM 1:00 PM EDT

      Q&A with directors

      moderated by Yagmur Unal

  • Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen: Feature & Opening Remarks

    October 19, 2020 at 3:00 PM EDT
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    The harrowing true story of the flu that decimated the world's population immediately after the carnage of World War I. This film focuses on one northern city and its attempts to lockdown factories, stadiums and celebrations as the men returned from war. It also looks at the confusion amongst the medical profession, as they realised that it wasn't just the virus that was killing the victims, but their own immune systems. A horrifically prescient film that shows precisely why one should pay heed to the lessons of history.

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    • Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
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      FILM 3:00 PM EDT

      Based on the handwritten accounts of Dr James Niven, public health officer for Manchester, England, this film tells the harrowing true story of the flu that decimated the world's population immediately after the carnage of World war One. It is estimated that 50 million died in the three waves of infection that followed.


    • Spanish Flu: Opening Remarks
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      STREAM 3:00 PM EDT

      Opening Remarks by director Justin Hardy

  • Tóxico

    October 19, 2020 at 5:00 PM EDT
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    In the middle of a mysterious insomnia epidemic that slowly takes on catastrophic dimensions, Laura (39) and Augusto (42) flee the city in their motor-home to get away from the chaos.

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    • Toxico
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      FILM 5:00 PM EDT

      In the midst of an insomnia pandemic that gradually rises to a global catastrophe, Laura (39) and Augusto (42) flee from the city in their motorhome in an attempt to get away from chaos. As they travel along the road, the world becomes a stranger and more dangerous place.


    • Tóxico: Conversation
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      STREAM 5:00 PM EDT

      Q&A with director Ariel Herrera

      moderated by Festival Coordinator Veronica Castillo

  • Symbiosis Lab Meeting & Science Film Social

    October 19, 2020 at 7:00 PM EDT
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    Scientists and filmmakers discuss their works-in progress along with scientific narratives around the theme of "Migration in Times of Crisis." Every year, we come together to hear about the mid-way point in the scientist-filmmaker collaborations and budding science-art ideas.

    We encourage everyone to join in as this is an open-door lab meeting. We will also have network/party afterwards on Spatial Chat. Be there or be square!

    7pm / Join on Zoom 

    Open-door lab meeting. Every one come and ask the participants questions.

    9pm / Science Film Social Party

    Meet scientists and filmmakers in our virtual zone on Spatial Chat. Learn more about how to be a Symbiotic participant next year.

     

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    • Symbiosis Lab Meeting (Stream)
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      STREAM 7:00 PM EDT

      Learn from Symbiosis filmmakers and scientists about their works-in-progress


    • Science FIlm Social Party
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      WEBINAR 8:00 PM EDT

      After the presentation, we will mingle in our virtual science/film lands so you can intereact with Symbiosis participants, learn about their projects and ask them more questions about their budding science films. Bring a drink!

  • Coronation: Feature (New York Only)

    October 19, 2020 at 9:00 PM EDT
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    "Coronation" examines the political specter of Chinese state control from the first to the last day of the Wuhan lockdown. The film records the state's brutally efficient, militarized response to control the virus. Sprawling emergency field hospitals were erected in a matter of days, 40,000 medical workers were bused in from all over China, and the city's residents were sealed into their homes.

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    • Coronation
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      FILM 9:00 PM EDT

      “Coronation” (2020) is a documentary film about the lockdown in Wuhan, China, during the Covid-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020.

      On December 1, 2019, the first patient with Covid-19 symptoms was identified in Wuhan. Chinese officials repeatedly denied that human-to-human transmission was possible, concealed the number of diagnosed patients, and punished medical staff for disclosing information about the epidemic. On January 23, 2020, Wuhan was placed under a city-w...

Event Day 5

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  • Displacement & Relocation: Shorts & Conversation

    October 20, 2020 at 11:00 AM EDT
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    What is the program?

    Some say that the journey is more important than the destination. If so, are we taking the time to understand how our inventions, discoveries, and lifestyles impact our destination and those of others? Through the proof of theories, nuclear experiments, transformed landscapes, and exile, these five films invite you to ponder on our past and present and the impact that they have on our future.

    PROGRAM LINEUP

    • Aggregate States of Matters
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      Algeria, 1961. France has just detonated its fourth atomic bomb. A group of seven soldiers is sent to the point of impact to take samples and measure radioactivity. But the further they go, the more the Captain, a war veteran in his fifties, is confronted with the paradoxes of a changing world.


    • The Atomic Adventure
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      Algeria, 1961. France has just detonated its fourth atomic bomb. A group of seven soldiers is sent to the point of impact to take samples and measure radioactivity. But the further they go, the more the Captain, a war veteran in his fifties, is confronted with the paradoxes of a changing world.


    • Where We Used To Swim
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      Lake Urmia in Northern Iran was once the biggest lake of the Middle East.
      But human influence has set its course and brought the drought.
      Nowadays just 5% of the original lake remain. The rest is dried out and covered by salt.
      It became a political symbol all over the country.
      This cinematic essay observes the places of present and past and weaves a new narration with fragments of identity and memory.


    • The eclipse which revolutionized physics
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      May 29th, 2019, celebrated 100 years of the eclipse observed from Sobral, in the interior of Ceará, which was the first experimental proof of the Theory of General Relativity, proposed four years before by German physicist Albert Einstein.


    • Exilio
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      Exploration between the characters and the filmmaker. A quest into a universal existential problem, how to inhabit the world. Members of a family leave their home and in the middle of the Cuban Sierra Maestra struggle to find a new one. During this process, they inhabit scenes of routine life in the middle of nature, outside of a closed space between four walls, place and concept they long and project. It concludes with the departure of the patriarch and the already palpable absence of a fath...


    • Displacement & Relocation: Conversation
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      STREAM 11:00 AM EDT

      Q&A with directors

      Bruno Horociwz - director, The Eclipse Which Revolutionized Physics

      Dabiel Azadu Faezi - director, Where We Used to Swim

      Maria Espinoza Stransky - director, Exilio

      moderated by Kirsten Strayer


    • Rosa Barba on Aggregate States of Matters
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      STREAM 11:00 AM EDT

      Rosa Barba, director of AGGREGATE STATES OF MATTERS, part of the Shorts Program "Displacement & Relocation"," shares a few thoughts about how scientists and artists/filmmakers work in similar ways: "not working towards a a solution, a statement but rather using an ongoing methodology of approaching and gathering knowledge of a specific subject."

  • Virtual Reality: Shorts & Conversation

    October 20, 2020 at 1:00 PM EDT
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    What is the program?

    How does technology impact our everyday lives? How dependent are we on it? What role will it play in our future society? What has it helped us understand and where is the line drawn between reality and fiction? These six films navigate our dynamics with technology as well as the boundaries that are set or broken.

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    • Story
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      'Story' is a reflection about modern man in an age of omnipresent technology. Looking through stories - a popular function in many social media platforms - we see people who are lonely, lost or already indifferent about reality surrounding them. Action takes place during one day and it's told by short, often (auto)ironic scenes, where virtual world sinks to reality.


    • FREYA
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      Jade considers FREYA (her Federally Regulated Enquiry and Yield Assistant) a friend. But when a one-night stand doesn’t go as planned, Jade is forced to question FREYA and the system she represents. Set in the not-too-distant future, FREYA ​will make you second guess your relationship with technology, social media, and The State.


    • Watchmaker At Time's End
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      A failed marriage. A watchmaker. Meteorites. Time is uncomfortably relative in this Kerala town, and our hero struggles to make the perfect watch to keep up with the times.


    • Average Happiness
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      During a PowerPoint presentation, statistical diagrams are breaking free from the strait-jacket of their coordinates. A trip into the sensual world of statistics begins. Pie charts are melting, arrow diagrams twisting, scatter plots, bar graphs and stock market curves join in a collective climax.


    • Testfilm #1
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      TESTFILM is a series of projects in which Telcosystems address the impact of new technological developments in digital filmmaking and their implications for the future of artists’ cinema. In TESTFILM #1 they explore the creative possibilities of the Digital Cinema Package (DCP) – the new global infrastructure for film projection in cinemas. By 2015, this digital standard had completely replaced analogue film projection around the world. Could one upset the default behavior of the ...


    • TX - REVERSE
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      What is behind the cinema screen? It is not surprising that cinema-in-the-cinema scenes are often used in horror films. For they irritate and unsettle by reminding us – the immobile viewers hidden in the cosy darkness – of our own questionable position. What if the forces of unlimited imagination penetrate through the canvas into our reality? What if the auditorium dissolves and with it the familiar laws of cinema itself? In a way never before seen, "tx-reverse" shows th...


    • Janus 2155 - The last archive
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      Janus 2155 is 8 minutes video. This video is a scientific fiction that uses images from a real scientific experiment based on a very small optomechanical object. It invites the viewer to follow the production of such an object until its laboratory experience. The narrator's point of view (voice over in the film) is in the distant future, as if the images we are looking at are the last traces or the scientific archives of the 21st century. One of the main questions of this video is based o...


    • Virtual Reality: Conversation
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      STREAM 2:00 PM EDT

      Q&A with directors

      moderated by ISF Programming Coordinator Wangechi Ngugi

  • Tune Into the Future: Feature & Conversation

    October 20, 2020 at 3:00 PM EDT
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    One hundred years before the internet, a self-declared tech guru started preaching the future to his flock of outsiders. Meet the most influential nerd you may never have heard of: Hugo Gernsback.

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    • Tune Into The Future
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      FILM 3:00 PM EDT

      One hundred years before the internet, a self-declared tech guru started preaching the future to his flock of outsiders. Meet the most influential nerd you may never have heard of: Hugo Gernsback. Decades in advance he foresaw Skype, jetpacks, space mining and drones. But even though he would accumulate over 80 patents throughout his life and befriend the likes of Edison and Tesla, his most influential invention remains Science Fiction. Gernsback planted the seeds for pop-culture phenomena su...


    • Tune Into the Future: Conversation
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      STREAM 3:00 PM EDT

      Q&A with director Eric Schockmel

      Moderated by Cristina Suarez

  • Her Name Was Europa: Feature & Conversation

    October 20, 2020 at 5:00 PM EDT
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    Aurochs is the name given to the wild ancestor of modern cattle. The aurochs has the distinction of being the first documented case of extinction.

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    • Her Name Was Europa
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      FILM 5:00 PM EDT

      Aurochs is the name given to the wild ancestor of modern cattle. The aurochs has the distinction of being the first documented case of extinction. The last known wild aurochs died in the Jaktorów Forest in Poland in 1627. Hunting and the introduction of domesticated cattle led to their decline and disappearance. Their value, however, derived not just from them being a source of sustenance. Traits that were attributed to the animal, such as speed, strength, and courage, imbued it with g...


    • Her Name Was Europa: Conversation
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      STREAM 5:00 PM EDT

      Q&A with directors Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy

      moderated by Wangechi Ngugi

       

  • Lapsis: Feature & Conversation

    October 20, 2020 at 7:00 PM EDT
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    Struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother, delivery man Ray takes a strange job in a strange new realm of the gig economy.

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    • Lapsis
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      FILM 7:00 PM EDT

      In a parallel present Queens, ex-mobster Ray Tincelli lives with his younger brother Jamie, who suffers from a chronic disease. Out of options for two-bit money-making hustles and unable to cover the costs of an elite clinical treatment for Jamie, Ray turns to a strange corner of the gig economy: pulling cable through miles of forest to connect large, cubic, metal transistors that link together the booming quantum trading market. Ray doesn’t know any more than the average person about t...


    • Lapsis: Conversation
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      STREAM 7:00 PM EDT

      Q&A with director Noah Hutton

      moderated by Attilio Rigotti

  • Empty Horses: Feature & Conversation

    October 20, 2020 at 9:00 PM EDT
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    The ghosts of two legendary Hungarian filmmakers (Michael Curtiz, Gábor Bódy) talk about film and personal history. A feature length essay film about cinema with actors Pál Mácsai and Roland Rába.

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    • Empty Horses (Üres lovak)
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      FILM 9:00 PM EDT

      Experimental film EMPTY HORSES documents an encounter between two much celebrated and very deceased Hungarian film directors. Michael Curtiz (1886-1962), the Oscar-winning director of Casablanca, responsible for shooting more than 150 movies during Hollywood's Golden Age, is recognised as one of history’s most prolific directors. Gábor Bódy (1946-1985), in contrast, was a pioneer of experimental filmmaking and film language, as well as a renowned academic theorist in h...


    • Empty Horses
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      STREAM 9:00 PM EDT

      Q&A with director Péter Lichter

Event Day 6

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October 21, 2020

  • Are You there?: Shorts & Conversation

    October 21, 2020 at 11:00 AM EDT
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    This combination of documentary and fiction shorts revolves around the concept of presence, whether it be in the physical realm or in a more abstract form like in our minds and memories. They explore the discovery of what has always been there but has never been seen, the commute between reality and the fabrications of our imagination as well as the risk to transition to non-existence.

     

    PROGRAM LINEUP

    • The Institute
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      The film is about the importance of biodiversity for the cultural identity and the economic independence of Latin America. This animated documentary is based on a conversation with Brigitte Baptiste—leading biodiversity expert, transgender activist, and longtime head of the "Instituto Humboldt", the world's only institute for biodiversity research. The interview was recorded in Bogota in 2019.


    • Now I am an axolotl
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      The Xochimilcan Axolotl is an endemic species to Mexico City. It's currently critically endangered because of water pollution issues. Even though it's a tiny animal, it's extinction would affect us all. "Now I'm an Axolotl" tells the story of the demise of the Axolotl, repercussions and possible solutions.


    • Cosmonaut
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      An old Cosmonaut lives the same kind of life now in his flat in a concrete panel apartment building as he did in his youth in a space station. As before, he still carries out heroic missions and misses his close relatives, who he left behind on his home planet. His close relatives see the situation altogether differently. Is this old man capable of coming to grips with the norms that apply in society? A cosmonaut will always be a cosmonaut. To the very end.


    • Of the Basin
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      Born and raised deep in Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin, eighty-six year old fisherman Wilven Hayes has spent a lifetime living off the land. His tenacity and endurance is the stuff of lore. Wilven shares his love for the Atchafalaya as he grapples with the shifting environment of the basin and the conditions that threaten the existence that sustains him. OF THE BASIN is an intimate portrait of a unique environment, and a means to celebrate and honor Wilven Hayes, one of the last fisherme...


    • I Love My Wife...
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      The true story of Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman and his wife Arline. Following Richard's death in 1988, a sealed envelope was discovered. Inside was a letter written by Feynman to his high-school sweetheart and first wife Arline, unearthing a private tragedy that he had suffered when he was just 28. This is a film about that letter.


    • Bye Little Block!
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      A young woman learns that soon she will have to move from the blockhouse flat she lives in. After receiving the upsetting news from the owner of the flat she is overwhelmed with emotions. Her teardrop of farewell grows into a concrete monolith. When the drop hits the ground a surreal panorama of the blockhouse area - she used to call home - unfolds... 


    • Are You There?: Conversation
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      STREAM 11:00 AM EDT

      Q&A with directors

      moderated by ISF Festival Coordinator Veronica Castillo


    • Kaspar Jancis on Cosmonaut
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      Kaspar Jancis, director of COSMONAUT, part of the Shorts Program "Are You There?", shares a few thoughts about his animation "heroes getting old and heroes being forgotten."  


    • Keely Kernan on Of the Basin
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      Keely Kernan, director of OF THE BASIN, part of the Shorts Program "Are You There?"," shares a few thoughts about her film. Of the Basin is an intimate portrait of a unique environment, and a means to celebrate and Wilven Hayes, one of the last fishermen of the Atchafalaya Basin.

  • Wake Up On Mars: Feature & Conversation (New York Only)

    October 21, 2020 at 1:00 PM EDT
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    Two teenage sisters lie in a vegetative state in the small Swedish home of their Kosovar family, the cause of their mysterious malady, known as "resignation syndrome," entwined with their personal trauma experienced as refugees.

    only availabe for viewing in New York

    PROGRAM LINEUP

    • Wake Up On Mars (Réveil sur Mars)
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      FILM 1:00 PM EDT

      A 10-year-old Roma boy living in Sweden attempts to come to terms with the mysterious Resignation Syndrome that has put his two sisters in a coma. The tight-knit family is trying to rebuild a normal life far from their native Kosovo where they were victims of persecution. While their entire future hangs in the balance of a pending asylum request, the little boy dreams of building a spaceship to leave it all behind.


    • Wake Up On Mars: Conversation
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      Q&A with director Dea Gjinovci

      Moderated by Kirsten Strayer

  • Coded Bias: Feature & Panel

    October 21, 2020 at 3:00 PM EDT
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    An exploration of the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery of racial bias in facial recognition algorithms.

    In partnership with Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and Data Science Institute.

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    • Coded Bias
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      FILM 3:00 PM EDT

      Modern society sits at the intersection of two crucial questions: What does it mean when artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly governs our liberties? And what are the consequences for the people Al is biased against? When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that most facial-recognition software does not accurately identify darker-skinned faces and the faces of women, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms. As it turns out, artificial intelligence i...


    • Coded Bias: Conversation
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      STREAM 3:00 PM EDT

      A discussion about the threats that artificial intelligence pose to civil rights

      Featuring film director Shalini Kantayya and computer scientist Jeannette Wing from Columbia’s Data Science Institute, moderated by data journalist Susan E. McGregor

  • Speak So I Can See You: Feature & Conversation

    October 21, 2020 at 5:00 PM EDT
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    Conjuring reality and wonder, "Speak so I Can See You" takes us to a seemingly different era, by exploring the world of Radio Belgrade. One of Europe's oldest radio stations and a true institution of the city, the station still broadcasts original programming and helps keep history, culture and critical thought, as well as everrelevant questions about ourselves and the world, from slipping out of memory and mind. Set at the intersection of an observational documentary and a unique sensory experience, the film conjures everyday scenes at the station and immersing interludes exploring the relationship between sound and the space it inhabits. Through a synesthetic blend of sounds, words, notes, echoes and light, we are taken into a unique cinematic soundscape that doubles as a love letter to radiophonic art and its disarming insight into what makes us remember, understand, think, discover, and feel.

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    • Speak so I Can See You (Govori da bih te video)
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      FILM 5:00 PM EDT

      A cinematic exploration of the unique soundscape of one of Europe’s oldest radio stations, Radio Belgrade, with a synesthetic insight into what makes us remember, think, understand, discover and feel.


    • Speak So I Can See You: Conversation
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      STREAM 5:00 PM EDT

      Q&A with director Marija Stojnić

      moderated by Veronica Castillo

  • Sow the Wind: Feature & Conversation (New York Only)

    October 21, 2020 at 7:00 PM EDT
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    "SOW THE WIND conveniently reminds us that the forces of nature do wield powerful energy reserves, which allow them to fight back against attacks and corruption, providing we have a minimum of faith in the future and decide to lift the veil on what’s hidden beneath." Fabien Lemercier - Cineuropa

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    PROGRAM LINEUP

    • Sow The Wind (Semina il vento)
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      FILM 7:00 PM EDT

      Nica, 21, drops out of her university course in agronomics and returns home to Apulia in southern Italy after three years away. She finds her father deep in debt, a polluted, devastated region, and olive trees destroyed by a parasite. Everyone seems to have given up in the face of the vast ecological disaster, while her father is obsessed with uprooting the olive grove to make money from the land. Nica fights with all her might to save the ancient trees. But the pollution has also contaminate...


    • Sow the Wind: Conversation
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      STREAM 7:00 PM EDT

      Q&A with director Danilo Caputo

      moderated by ISF Programming Coordinator Wangechi Ngugi

  • The Cordillera of Dreams: Feature

    October 21, 2020 at 9:00 PM EDT
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    Patricio Guzmán left Chile more than 40 years ago when the military dictatorship took over the government. However, he never stopped thinking about a country, a culture and a place on the map.

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    • The Cordillera of Dreams (La cordillera de los sueños)
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      Winner of the Best Documentary award at the Cannes Film Festival, master filmmaker Patricio Guzmán's The Cordillera of Dreams completes his trilogy (with Nostalgia for the Light and The Pearl Button) investigating the relationship between historical memory, political trauma, and geography in his native country of Chile. It centers on the imposing landscape of the Andes that run the length of the country’s Eastern border. At ...

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October 22, 2020

  • Ironic Time: Shorts & Conversation

    October 22, 2020 at 11:00 AM EDT
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    "The Environmental Agency-Abu Dhabi and Zayed University's Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival in February 2020 in Abu Dhabi, UAE focused on Waste. To my chagrin as artistic director, I did not focus on one element that is wasted. Time. On the one hand, Time is an elusive invisible mythical character that mesmerizes artists; on the other, it is the most scientifically calibrated, ubiquitous concept confronting and confounding scientists. The three films we curate frame time to challenge and bend political perspectives of our quantum selves and constructed collectives—to move beyond an ethos of outrage at the horrors of fires and floods. Immediate, spectacular, live, and broadcasted, we live perhaps in instant quick time environmentalism. However, the time of environmental violence is also slow, anachronistic, ancient, and non-human. This invisible irony of time is what our cinema artists represent. Our paradoxical age needs migrations in time too. " Artistic Director, Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival, Nezar Andary

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    • In Vitro
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      In Vitro is set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above.
      In the hospital wing of the underground compound, the orchard’s ailing founder, 70-year-old Dunia is lying in her deathbed, as 30-year-old Alia comes to visit her. Alia is born undergro...


    • Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow
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      A young filmmaker investigates the legend of Manivelle, an automaton gifted to Lebanon in 1945 that still haunts an abandoned mansion in Beirut. After being coaxed back out into the limelight, the people who knew him come forward to speak their mind, and the myth that Manivelle has constructed around himself starts to unravel.


    • Glory At Sea!
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      A group of mourners and a man spat from the depths of Hades build a boat from the debris of New Orleans to rescue their lost loved ones trapped beneath the sea.


    • Ironic Time: Conversation
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      A Conversation between Artistic Director, Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival, Nezar Andar & Fadi Baki, director of The Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow.

      in partnership with Environmental Agency-Abu Dhabi & Zayed University's Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival.

  • As Above So Below: Feature & Conversation

    October 22, 2020 at 1:00 PM EDT
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    This hushed, pared-down essay weaves together different facts and myths surrounding the moon: images, texts, and sounds are spun into a dense, delicate tissue of ideas, with humans both at the centre and infinitely small in this celestial context.

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    • As Above So Below
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      A group of people wander over a field at the foot of a cloud-covered mountain range. Here and there, swings have been set up in the broad landscape and the people queue up obediently to sit on them for a few rounds. Sarah Francis returns to this scene again and again. In between, we follow a creation story from the beginnings of humanity to the establishment of religion, culminating in digital clouds that weave together facts...


    • As Above So Below: Conversation
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      Q&A with director Sarah Francis

  • Ticket to the Moon: Feature & Conversation

    October 22, 2020 at 3:00 PM EDT
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    TICKET TO THE MOON meets potential space travelers of the past today and humorously tells their individual moon stories.

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    • Ticket to the Moon
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      At the frenzy of the Space Race almost 100.000 people on both sides of the Iron Curtain signed up to fly to the Moon at the PanAm‘s First Moon Flights Club. World was split to two realities of the East and the West, but there was just one Moon, for everybody.

      Following the filmmaker´s grandfather, one of the fellow club members, TICKET TO THE MOON asks what did the mere thought and imagination of a trip to the Moon mean to these potential space travellers – on both...


    • Ticket to the Moon: Conversation
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      Q&A with director Veronika Janatkova

  • At the Bottom of the Sea: Feature & Conversation

    October 22, 2020 at 5:00 PM EDT
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    "At the Bottom of the Sea" traces forms of migration, interweaving them with geological and archaeological cartographies. 

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    • At the bottom of the sea
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      Spaces expand or disappear. Oceans become deserts. Rock erodes to sand and dust and human kind is passing by all this. Since the beginning of our existence, we are constantly moving from one place to another, fleeing hunger, war or the forces of nature, but also driven by a sense of longing for change. “At the Bottom of the Sea” traces forms of migration, interweaving them with geological and archaeological cartographies. In magical tableaux, the film draws a cinegraphic melanchol...


    • At the Bottom of the Sea: Conversation
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      Q&A with director Karsten Krause

  • Whale Island: Feature & Conversation

    October 22, 2020 at 7:00 PM EDT
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    Although Taiwan is an island surrounded by the sea, its people fear the sea since the politics, the history and the religious beliefs make people turn their back to the sea. Two leading characters, Liao Hong-ji, a writer of marine literature and Ray Chin, the underwater photographer take the audience into the sea. They prompt the audience to understand the sea and to rethink about the connection between Taiwanese and the sea.

     

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    • Whale Island (Nan Ren He Ta De Hai)
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      Taiwan is an island country. Although it is surrounded by the sea, its people fear the sea since the politics, the history and the religious beliefs held on this island make people turn their backs to the sea.

      Oceanic literature author Liao Hung-chi and underwater photographer Ray Chin lead the audience out to the sea and into the water. They prompt us to understand the sea and to think about the possibility that the ocean might become our lives and the future of our country.

      ...

    • Whale Island: Conversation
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      Q&A with director Chia-chun Huang

  • Space Dogs: Feature & Conversation

    October 22, 2020 at 9:00 PM EDT
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    SPACE DOGS embarks on a quest after the street dog Laika who was the first living being sent into space, where she burned out. A legend says that today her ghost is wandering through the Russian capital. The hybrid-documentary SPACE DOGS takes this myth as its starting point and proceeds by following Laika’s traces. They lead into the story of Soviet space travels and street dogs that live in today’s Moscow. This film is a magical journey across our earthly borders and tells a so far unknown story of Moscow stray dogs – from ascent into space to the life on the surface of the earth.

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    • Space Dogs
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      Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. According to a legend, she returned to Earth as a ghost and has roamed the streets of Moscow ever since. Following her trace, and filmed from a dog’s perspective, SPACE DOGS accompanies the adventures of her descendants: two street dogs living in today’s Moscow. Their story is one of intimate fellowship but also relentless brutality, and is interwoven with unseen archive material from...


    • Space Dogs: Conversation
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      Q&A with directors Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter

Event Day 8

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October 23, 2020

  • Morphogenesis: Shorts & Conversation

    October 23, 2020 at 11:00 AM EDT
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    How does a cell or organism develop its shape in correlation to its environment, and what role does technology play in synchronizing the organism's process of development to achieve a state of homeostasis?

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    • Voices of Genetic Counsellors: So Much More Than Just a Test
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      Genomic technology is sweeping across society. 2016 was declared “Generation Genome” by the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies, who said in her opening statements of that year’s annual report: “Genomic medicine has the potential to save costs and improve quality of care by targeting treatment, maximising benefit and reducing side effects. For patients with rare diseases, it can shorten their ‘diagnostic odyssey’ he...


    • Synthesis of ATP
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      FILM 11:00 AM EDT

      Revealing the molecular mechanisms that power your cells and tissues, converting food and oxygen into the flow of chemical energy that makes your body be alive. Created in collaboration with HHMI BioInteractive part of a new collection of free bio-molecular animations for science education and public exhibition, "Synthesis of ATP" combines advanced microscopy, accurate molecular models and cinematic animation to engage students and the public with inspiring biology in action at atom...


    • Earth's Answer (La Réponse de La Terre)
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      Wandering between the scientific and the psychedelic, "Earth's Answer" is a reflection on the meaning of images, their nature and durability (and a homage to the poem "Earth's Answer" by William Blake). 
      We follow the thread of the thoughts of a man who could be just well an astrophysicist, CERN archivist or a musician. In his mental and sensorially graphic journey, the narrator leads us in a reflection on the infinitely large and the infinitely small, ...


    • Material Bodies
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      Through interweaving dance and dialogue, Material Bodies is a sensual and cinematic look at the relationship between amputees and their limbs. This visceral and colourful short film explores how a prosthetic leg can be more like a piece of jewellery, a dance companion, or a part of you.


    • The Cloud House
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      ‘It was in 1894 that I first visited Ben Nevis. Young physicists were sometimes welcomed in the Observatory for short periods in the summer to take the place of observers on holiday. I offered myself for this work and it was arranged that I should spend a fortnight on the summit.’

      This is Charles Wilson at the beginning of his career. His efforts to recreate atmospheric effects in the lab resulted in the first particle detector: the expansion cloud chamber. The sharp vap...


    • A Demonstration
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      "A Demonstration” is a monster film with no monsters. Inspired by the existence of taxonomies of monsters at the heart of Early Modern European science, the film explores and reinterprets a way of seeing the natural world that is almost impossible to imagine from today’s vantage point. Early Modern naturalists were guided by a logic in which scientific truths were discovered through visual analogy. The word ‘monster’ comes from the latin ‘monstrare’, m...


    • Earthbound
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      April 23: seen from a forestry road, a raven takes flight from a stand of pines. Behind it, in the middle of the woods, lies the carcass of a freshly killed deer. Obviously the work of coyotes whose songs can be heard at night. Surveillance cameras are set up awaiting their return. In the meantime, the regular visitors of these scenes come and go: ravens, vultures and other animals passing through. The months go by; the seasons transform the forest. The infrared cameras mechanically record th...


    • Lichen
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      This stunning otherworldly short film takes a deep dive into lichen, a species that confounds scientists to this day. Shot in macro 3D, Lichen offers us a look at this remarkable life form and asks what we might learn from it. Ancient and diverse, both an individual and a community, lichens can live in the most extreme environments, including outer space. This meditative film bridges science and philosophy, and the words of lichen...


    • Morphogenesis: Conversation
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      Q&A with directors

      moderated by Lujain Ibrahim

  • Bile: Feature & Conversation

    October 23, 2020 at 1:00 PM EDT
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    An introspective essay on the notion of the human body as a political metaphor. Layer-by-layer the film digs down in order to reach answers to the proposed questions: what is the body, what is illness and finally, what is death.

    In partnership with Museum of the Moving Image's Sloan Science & Film initiative that explores the intersection of science and film.

     

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    • Bile
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      "How thin is the human skin? What does it hide behind? The leather bag of apocalypse." 
      Bile is an introspective essay on the notion of the human body as political metaphor. Layer-by-layer the film digs down in order to reach answers to the proposed questions: what is body, what is illness and finally, what is death. A journey through the history of medical imaging and a reflection on the recent death of the ...


    • Bile: Conversation
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      Q&A with director Ira Goryainova Moderated by Sonia Epstein, Executive Editor and Associate Curator of Science and Film at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City.

  • Homo botanicus: Feature & Conversation

    October 23, 2020 at 3:00 PM EDT
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    Homo Botanicus explores the romantic world of scientists through the working relationship between botanist Julio Betancur and his disciple Cristian Castro, as they traverse the Colombian tropical forests. This is an anachronistic journey through plants mysteries and their legacy in the world.

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    • Homo botanicus
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      Botanist Julio Betancur and his disciple, young Cristian Castro, return to Colombia's tropical forests to explore once again their passion for nature. Through the lens of Director Guillermo Quintero, former student of Julio, we will travel in the middle of a delirious expedition that will lead us to understand the strength of their friendship and the importance of their legacy. In the diverse and almost infinite world of the tropics we will get lost next to them in the time of the jungle....


    • Homo Botanicus: Conversation
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      Q&A with director Guillermo Quintero

  • Phases of Matter: Feature & Conversation

    October 23, 2020 at 5:00 PM EDT
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    "Phases of Matter" follows living and inanimate residents of a teaching hospital in Istanbul, moving from the operating room to the morgue, between life and other states, the real and the virtual.

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    • Phases of Matter
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      Set in Istanbul's venerable Cerrahpaşa Hospital, PHASES OF MATTER follows living and inanimate residents of this teaching hospital, moving from the operating room to the morgue, between life and other states, the real and the virtual.


    • Phases of Matter: Conversation
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      Q&A with director Deniz Tortum

  • Closing Night & Award Ceremony & Virtual Party

    October 23, 2020 at 7:00 PM EDT
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    For closing night, we present the six films made as part of the 2020 Symbiosis competition presented by Science Sandbox. Our Symbiosis director for this year’s festival will conclude with the Awards ceremony. Online reception and networking to follow.

    with the support of Science Sandbox

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    • Symbiosis Movie Night
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      We unveil the 6 films from the 2020 Symbiosis competition and hear the filmmakers speak about their process of working in these unprecedented times


    • ISFF13 AfterParty Network
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      WEBINAR 9:00 PM EDT

      Join our afterparty - we will have a virtual room where we all can mingle and where you can teleport yourself around to chat with people, thanks to Spatial Chat.

       

       Click here to join: https://spatial.chat/s/ImagineScience


    • Wound
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      Two immigrants recount the changes brought about by their journeys to the U.S., paralleling that of cells migrating in response to a wound.

      ISFF13 Symbiosis


    • The Octopus Network
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      FILM 10:00 PM EDT

      A living organism to host, extend, connect, and express our senses.  The Octopus Network is our attempt to capture the boundless motion of human senses, thoughts, and emotions that are constantly flowing around us - transported over invisible waves that dance to the vibrational rhythm of electromagnetism, one of the four fundamental forces of Nature.   We explored the spectrum in which physical boundaries become virtually boundless. During this exploratory journey, we met distant st...


    • Fathomless
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      Fathom, a unit to measure depth. A medical-science trajectory toward understanding the deep complexity of distorted minds and the perception of the ones who suffer it.  

      ISFF13 Symbiosis 2020 Winner 


    • Nanodoctor
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      FILM 10:00 PM EDT

      Nanodoctor - iterations 1 to 3’ is an imaginary promotional film from the near future explaining the migration of information inside living organisms through molecules, and how the real time monitoring of those molecules will allow the diagnosis and rapid resolution of a crisis inside the human body or, in other words, illness. The film then expands on this idea of migration by presenting a reflection on the current reconfiguration of information/misinformation via the internet. How is ...


    • A Sentimental Science
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      How many neurons do you need to recognize your mother? "A Sentimental Science" explores the limitations of our understanding of how our experience is encoded in neural activity.

      ISFF13 Symbiosis


    • Endomic
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      FILM 10:00 PM EDT

      It might not even exist at all.

      An exhaustive meta-analytic review documenting a mysterious “women's issue," otherwise known as endometriosis.1 1term used to describe a clinical etiology that thus far has only been identified in primates with a female reproductive system, an anatomical structure of decidedly lower importance in comparison to those of the male primate.

      ISFF13 Symbiosis

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