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:

The Aliens
1:00pm
Short Film Program
Cinema Village
22 E 12th St, New York, Ny 10003

The Possibility Of Extraterrestrial Visitors Is One Of Science Fiction's Most Enduring Subjects. Within The Science New Wave, Aliens Take On Additional Meanings. They're The Seeds That Stow Away In Imported Wool, Mysterious Audio Signals, The Otherworldly Microscopic Creatures That We Share Our Living Spaces With (By The Untold Billions), The Scientists Who Contend With Earth's Overbearing Gravity To Study Us In Turn. "The Aliens" Reconfigures The Trope Through Direct Film Experimentation, Documentary, And Dance.

The Time Travelers
3:00pm
Short Film Program
Cinema Village
22 E 12th St, New York, Ny 10003

If Any Other Sci-Fi Subject Can Rival Alien Visitors In The Popular Imagination, It's Time Travel. As With The Prior Program, A Familiar Trope Is Here Fragmented Into New And Illuminating Facets. Travelers From The Future Search Air Quality Disasters Of The Past For Insight Into Their Own Time Or Become Fascinated By The Minutia Of Contemporary Life. Scientists Probe Soil And Water To Reconstruct And Simulate Cities Long-Since Swept Away. Familial Memory Intertwines With History. And Market Speculators Hope To Sleep, In Cryogenic Stasis, Until Ill-Considered Investments Deliver Dividends In Some Distant Future.

Botanical Dialogues
5:00pm
Short Film Program
Cinema Village
22 E 12th St, New York, Ny 10003

What Can Plants Tell Us? They Signal Nutrient Content Of Soil And Water, They Speak From Scientific History In The Rich Tradition Of Botanical Illustration, They May Even Be Able, Without A Trace Of An Animal's Nervous System, To Sleep, Even Dream. In This Program We'll See The Fine Structures Of Grasses Applied Directly To 16mm Film, Investigate The Secret Interiors Of Insect Galls, Seek The Botanical Truth Of Myth, And Consider The Challenges Of Representing The Complicated Organic Forms Of Flowers. If We Listen, We May Even Hear A Monologue From A Murderous Tree.

Apple Cider Vinegar + Whale Fall
7:00pm
Feature Film Program
Cinema Village
22 E 12th St, New York, Ny 10003

Stones Are At Once The Most Foundational And The Most Overlooked Parts Of Our Lifeworld. When A Retired Nature Documentary Narrator Passes A Kidney Stone, She Decides To Tell One More Story About This Forgotten World Of Stone. A Hypnotic Essay Film Asking Urgent Ecological Questions, Apple Cider Vinegar Takes The Viewer On A Journey Across The Globe, Meeting Forensic Chemists, Passionate Geologists, Palestinian Quarry Workers, And Those Who Still Live On The Lava Fields Of Fogo. Along With A Few Stops To Take In The Miniature Dramas Forever Unfolding On Networked Nature Cams.

Don't Be Fooled By The Unassuming Title. With Wit And Grace To Spare, This Is A Film About, Well, Everything.

Just Above The Surface Of The Earth (For A Coming Extinction) + The Waiting
9:00pm
Feature Film Program
Cinema Village
22 E 12th St, New York, Ny 10003

A Poetic Portrait Of Contemporary Wildlife Conservation, Just Above The Surface Of The Earth Reflects On Empathy, Agency, And The Role Of Hope In The Midst Of A Sixth Mass Extinction. This Debut Nonfiction Feature Examines Scientists And Citizen Scientists Who Conduct Surveys Of Frogs, Which Serve As An Indicator Species; Study Sea Stars Threatened By Disease; Track Bats Whose Populations Have Been Decimated By White-Nose Syndrome; And Collect Data On Insects Declining At Unprecedented Rates. Set Primarily At Night, The Film Weaves Together Observational And Lyrical Sequences, Texts Written By Authors Including W.S. Merwin And Adam Nicolson, And An Otherworldly Soundscape. Just Above The Surface Of The Earth Is A Visceral, Sensory Meditation On What It Means To Live In A Broken World.