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:

Deep Process
3:00pm
Feature Film Program
Cinema Village
22 E 12th St, New York, Ny 10003

What Are The Precise Means By Which Scientific Inquiry Is Conducted?

The Drosophila Fly Is A Perfect Model For Life In The Laboratory, Mass-Produced To Mass-Produce Knowledge. It Lives, Dies And Loves In The Cylinder Of A Plastic Tube.
In A Larger Box, In A Research Centre For Animal Behaviour, Humans Conduct Astonishing Experiments With These Insects.

Witnessing These Experiments, Our Perception Of These Familiar Animals Is Gradually Transformed.

Beneath The Skin Of Dreams

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

Dreams Are A Yet-Incompletely-Understood Realm Of Inspiration And Anxiety. But These Films Are Less About The Mechanisms Of Dreams Themselves Than About The Possibilities That Open From Them. A Pea Plant, Under Anesthesia, Dreams Of History, Invasive Seeds Shed In A Coliseum And Of Its Role In 19th Century Taxonomy. Dreams Connect A Constellation Of Forces Related To The Modern Industrial Landscape And Threats Of Climate Change. A Close Study Of The Marks We Leave Transforms The Commonplace. And Hovering Between Life And Death, Dreams Spool Out An Irrational And Ever-Shifting Landscape Of Beauty And Unease. This Is An Invitation To Hypnagogic Worlds.

Infinite Summer + The Rainbow Bridge
7:00pm
Feature Film Program
Cinema Village
22 E 12th St, New York, Ny 10003

In A Just-Barely-Future Of Ai Zoo Optimization And Vr Dating Apps, Sensible Estonian Teen Mia Is Still Figuring Out Her Future When Her American Friend Grete Comes To Visit For A Summer At The Lake And Things Take A Turn For The Weird. Drawn Along By The Desire To Play It Cool With Her Older Friend, She's Pulled Towards Not Exactly Drugs But An Experimental Mindfulness Headset That Might Probe Even More Mind-Altering. But Why Are Two Officers From Interpol In Town To Track It, And What Does It Have To Do With The Benevolent Robotic Chicken At The Tallinn Zoo?

Following Up From Surreal Prior Features Crumbs And Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway, Director Miguel Llansó Here Constructs A Slightly More Traditional Narrative With Meatier Themes, But Without Giving Up His Inventiveness. Ultimately It's Tethered By A Strong Lead Performance That Keeps The Wildest Turns Of The Plot From Ever Feeling Unrelateable. With A Score From Pioneering Electronic Composer Laurie Spiegel.

Infinite Summer Is A Techno-Psychedelic Coming Of Age Story That Draws As Much From The Teen Summer Canon As It Does From Classic Sci-Fi Mind-Benders In Order To Construct A Very Contemporary Interrogation Of Transhumanism, The Unchecked Global Tech Economy, And The Desire To Find One's Place In The Universe.

Monisme
9:00pm    
Feature Film Program
Cinema Village
22 E 12th St, New York, Ny 10003

Several Professional Actors And Non-Actor Professionals Portray A Dynamic Of Human-Nature Relationship Around One Of The Most Active Stratovolcanos In The World, Indonesia's Mount Merapi. In The Shadows Of Recent Eruptions, These Actors Play Out A Story That Is Written Together By The People Who Live There, Including A Volcanologist, A Sand Miner, And A Mystic—People Who Have A Close Bond With The Mountain, Illustrating Fiction And Nonfiction Situations That Could And Would Have Happened In Merapi. As The Volcano Waits, And Tremors Shiver Along Its Slopes, Tensions Spark Between Scientists, Locals, And The Shadowy Paramilitary Forces That Lurk In The Jungle.