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:

Staring At The Sun
5:00pm
Short Film Program
Cinema Village
22 E 12th St, New York, Ny 10003

Without The Sun, Life As We Know It On Earth Could Never Have Developed. With It, We'll All Be Consumed In Another Five Billion Years When It Surges Outwards Into The Red Giant Phase Of Its Life. These Opposing Forces Of The Sun, Creative And Destroying, Recur Throughout This Program Of Experimental Sun Studies: In U.S. Thermonuclear Tests In Marshall Islands Which Harnessed Star-Like Nuclear Fusion Reactions, In Croatian Astronomical Animation, In Alchemical Study Of An Artist Harnessing Fire In Appalachian Mountains, And In Abstract Chilean Science Fiction. At Last, We Turn Instead To The Influence Of The Moon, In A Luminously Imagined Tale Of Intersecting Lives On The Night Of An Eclipse.

The Cinema Within
7:00pm
Feature Film Program
Cinema Village
22 E 12th St, New York, Ny 10003

Why Does The Uniquely Cinematic Language Of Film Editing Work? In Real Life We Don’t Instantly Jump From One Viewpoint To Another. Such A Bizarre Disruption Would Be Nauseatingly Jarring. And Yet, Film Viewers Effortlessly Understand, And Don’t Even Notice, Most Edits. This Has Led To The Suspicion That Film Editing Exploits Some Universal Features Of Human Perception – That A Well-Edited Film Is An Illusion That Mirrors Our Window Upon The World.

Film Editor Walter Murch, Scholar David Bordwell And A Handful Of Eminent Psychologists Present This Compelling Portrait Of The Profound “Naturalness” Of Film Editing. But In The Remote Mountains Of Turkey, A Budding Researcher – Alongside A Group Of People Who Have Never Seen Films – Puts This Deepest Of Cinematic Ideas To The Test.

Preparations For A Miracle + Wild Summon
9:00pm
Feature Film Program
Cinema Village
22 E 12th St, New York, Ny 10003

A Time-Travelling Android From The Future Seeks The Last King To Record His Beautiful Voice Which Will Deliver Existential Answers To The Machines Of The Future. It’s The Year 2022 And The King Is About To Sing. Preparations For A Miracle Is A Sci-Fi Documentary About Our Exploitation Of Nature And Machines, Seen Through The Eyes Of A Time-Travelling Android, Who Interprets Everything Wrong. Or So It Seems.