- 7:00 p.m.
The Fifth Annual Imagine Science Film Festival, which runs from November 8-16, is the first science film festival in the world founded by scientists. It aims to transform the way science and scientists are portrayed in mainstream media, while emphasizing the importance of storytelling, narrative structure, and visual communication. For more info, visit http://www.imaginesciencefilms.org/
This year, the festival will present films that stimulate the synapses and the senses by exploring in the inner mind and the brain in all its states. Full day programs will be devoted to avant-garde science bits, documentaries, footage from actual lab experiments, discussion about the meaning of dreams and kid-friendly science-based films.
At The New School on November 10th the Math Expression Program's feature presentation Colors of Math will be screened, preceded by a short film: The Lesson, directed by Chen Ni. Director Ekaterina Eremenko in attendance!
To most people math appears abstract, mysterious. Complicated. Inaccessible. But math is nothing but a different language to express the world. Math can be sensual. Math can be tasted, it smells, it creates sound and color. One can touch it – and be touched by it…
More information on the Imagine Science Film Festival can be found at: http://www.imaginesciencefilms.org/festival/2012-showtimes/
Sponsored by the Eugene Lang College Department of Natural Science & Mathematics.