Imagine Science Film Festival

The Science New Wave Festival Heads Into Its 17th Edition. It Embraces The Idea(L)S Of The Science New Wave, Celebrating Films Where Scientific Pursuit Is Free To Co-Exist And Blend Freely Across Disciplines And Cultures. From Documentary To Fiction To Data, We Hope To Always Challenge The Way You Understand, Interpret, And Appreciate Scientific Ideas And Perspectives.

Schedule Of Events:

Short Film Program
Cinema Village
22 E 12th St, New York, Ny 10003

Birds Have Cultural And Scientific Meanings Without Number. They Populate Our Myths And Metaphors, They Teach Us About Evolution, Language, And Magnetic Navigation, They Serve As Indicators Of A Shifting Biosphere And Climate. Films In This Program Dance Around These Subjects And Into Others: Signal Degradation In The Printing Of Audubon Color Plates, The Links Between Natural History Sample Collection And Colonialism, The Persian Story Of The Simurgh, And The Challenges Of Light Pollution. As Ever, The Lightness Of Feathered Flight Escapes Simple Categories.


Without Humans
3:00pm
Short Film Program
Cinema Village
22 E 12th St, New York, Ny 10003

In Geologic Time, Or Even Compared To Our Longer-Lived Neighbors, Horseshoe Crabs And Coelacanths, Humans Have Existed On Earth For But The Blink Of An Eye. Our Outsized Effect Notwithstanding. We'd Like To Imagine We Will Be Here Forever, But In Our Stories, We Fantasize Our Own Destruction. These Are Not Disaster Films, However, They Merely Envision The Lives And Landscapes That Outlast Us. Animals Band Together Outside The Human World, A De-Extinct Mammoth Reflects On The Extinction Of **** Sapiens, Tectonic Plates Shift, And A Trio Of Burros Investigate A Fully Automated Observatory, Continuing To Consult The Cosmos Long After We've Gone.

5:00pm

The New Ruins + Kawauso
Feature Film Program
Cinema Village
22 E 12th St, New York, Ny 10003

An Amateur Archaeologist Obsessed With Electronic Waste Records Images And Sounds For Ten Years, As Part Of An Intuitive Investigation. As He Shapes A Personal, Playful And Musical Diary, He Travels The World Tirelessly, Trying To Decipher What His Findings Hide And How He Might Interpret Them. One Day, In A Workshop Recycling Electronic Objects, A Strange Revelation Happens. From That Moment On, His Search Takes An Unexpected Turn And, Following The Trail Of A Ghost Poet, New Questions Appear. As Time Goes By And New Ruins Accumulate, The Archaeologist Sees His Cat Named Pendrive Grow Up And Asks Him: "Dear Friend, How Will History Be Written In The Future? Who Will Write It?"

Thus, Between Absurdity And Darkness, The Archaeologist Will Try To Understand The Current State Of Technology And Its Link With Memory, In Times Of Environmental Crisis And Overproduction.

8:30pm

Field Notes + Filmmaker Reception
Live Event

Firehouse: Dctv's Cinema For Documentary Film
87 Lafayette Street, New York, Ny 10013

How Does An Intrepid Film Make Its Way, Through Jungles Of Images, Seas Of Sound, And Often Years Of Conceptualizing And Production, To The Screen? In Partnership With Dctv, We're Excited To Present Science New Wave Field Notes, An Exclusive Glimpse Into The Production Process With A Few Of Our Favorite Filmmakers, And Even Scientists Working With Video. The Event Also Serves As Preview Launch Of The Latest New Feature From Our Sister-Site Labocine, Which Will Now Allow The Incorporation Of Filmmaking Field Notes Directly Into Film Pages, Allowing Viewers A Deeper Dive Into Fascinating Work. Much Of The Labor Of Filmmaking -- Hours Of Experiments, Outtakes, And Test Footage, Not To Mention Scrapped Scripts, Endless Interview Transcriptions, And Deep Research Into Tangential Leads -- Ends Up Invisible In The Final Creation. This Night Of Film Talks, And Labocine's Field Notes Hereafter, Offer A Glimpse Of Some Of That Hidden Wealth.

The Event Will Wrap Up With A Reception, So Grab A Drink And Catch Up With Some Of The Filmmakers, Meet Other Members Of The Science New Wave, And Make Plans For Your Next Cinematic Expedition. This Will Serve As Our Opening Party!