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:

Strange Signals

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

Vital Signals Arrive And Depart Constantly At Every Scale. Information Enters Us Through Our Eyes And Ears And Olfactory Systems, As Well As Other Senses We're Still In The Process Of Inventing. At The Cellular Level, Biochemical Messages Are Shuttled, Though A Complex Dance Of Proteins, Across The Lipid Membrane, Perhaps To Trigger A Cell Line To Differentiate. At Larger Scales, We Seek Signals From Farther Out, As Satellites Collect Data And Beam Their Messages Back To Earth. But Beware Of The Signals You Receive From Social Media: They Might Just Melt Your Eyes.


The Gloria Of Your Imagination
Feature Film Performance
Cinema Village
22 E 12th St, New York, Ny 10003
7:00pm

Sixty Years Ago, A 30-Year-Old Waitress And Single Mother, Was Persuaded To Engage In Psychotherapy Sessions On Film, With Three Of The Most Influential Theorist-Psychologists Of The 20th Century. Reeves Newest Dual-Projection Film Breaks Down And Expands The Seminal Film Series Three Approaches To Psychotherapy With An Intricate Superimposed Montage Consisting Of Material From Gloria’s Unguarded Sessions And Numerous Film Artifacts Of Her Lifetime: Newsreels, Home Movies, Commercials, A Beauty Pageant, Cold War Propaganda, And Educational Films From The 1930s-1970s.

The Gloria Of Your Imagination Immerses Audience Members In An Unabashed Patriarchal, Nationalistic Era Which Many U.S. Conservatives Are Working Tirelessly To Recreate. Social And Legal Limitations Of That Era, Which Formed Gloria And The Struggles Of Her Generation, Remain Unacknowledged In The Sessions. While The Therapists Seem Progressively Non-Judgmental About Gloria’s Active Sex Life, There Is No Mention That Contraceptives Are Actually Illegal For Her To Take. Reeves’ Original Intertitle Script Fills In Missing Context And Introduces Gloria’s Greater Life And Self: From Her Polish-Catholic Upbringing To Marriage Straight From High School To An Ever-Evolving Single Parent On A Spiritual Journey, Living By Her Own Principles, Until An Untimely Death At 46 Years Of Age.

By Projecting Films That Gloria Could Have Seen In Their Original 16mm Format, On Top Of Portions From Gloria’s Psychotherapy Sessions, Viewers Absorb The Culture Of That Era Directly. Original 16mm Shot By Reeves, And Footage Doctored With Her Signature Direct-On-Film Techniques, Bring About Viewers’ Subjective Experiences And Visceral Connections To Gloria’s Inner Experience. The “Three Glorias” Put On Display By Therapists With Vastly Divergent Methods And Conclusions, Are Displaced By The Glorias Viewers Experience, And Perhaps By The Courageous And Determined Individual Imagined By The Filmmaker.

Preemptive Listening
7:00pm

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

In An Age Of Intersecting Political, Man-Made And Ecological Disasters, ‘Preemptive Listening’ Is An Ode To The Sirens That Are And Those That Could Be. Siren Compositions From Over 20 Contemporary Musicians Form A Resonant Voice To Ask; Does An Alarm Have To Be Alarming?