The 4th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival, October 14 – 21, 2011

With new events, panels, receptions, and the largest selection of science based films to date, the 4th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival promises to be an exciting eight days filled with science and cinema. The themes of this year’s program are aging, immortality, and space, with evenings devoted to avant-garde science shorts, documentaries, footage from actual lab experiments, discussions about humanizing science through its depiction in film, and an afternoon of child-friendly science based films. The Imagine Science Film Festival is the only film festival in the world founded by scientists to showcase films presenting accurate scientific fact in compelling visual narratives. The festival aims to transform the way science is portrayed in mainstream media, while emphasizing the importance of storytelling, narrative structure, and visual communication.

Includes access to all paid screenings at every venue.

Includes VIP access with preferred seating at all screenings, special events, panel discussions, and parties.

Please bring a copy of Pass Purchase and ID / Passes will be provided at the Opening Night Will Call Booth

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OPENING NIGHT | SEEKING IMMORTALITY

Friday, October 14, 2011 8pm (Doors Open at 7:30PM) | $15 (includes museum access) »

Mr. Nobody

See film page.

The New York premiere of Mr. Nobody will be hosted by the Museum of Moving Image for the opening night of the Imagine Science Film Festival. Mr. Nobody, is a sci-fi drama directed by Jaco Van Dormael and stars Jared Leto and Diane Kruger. It begins in the year 2092 with Nemo (Mr. Nobody) as a 117 year-old man and the last living mortal. Nemo guides the audience on a non-linear journey through different stages of his life. When his memory begins to fail, it becomes increasingly difficult to decipher which elements from the story are real and what is a product of his imagination.

Mr. Nobody is framed by scientific theories about cognition and memory, which will be explored by scientists and filmmakers during a panel discussion after the screening.

—VENUE—

Museum of the Moving Image | Queens
3601 35th Avenue Long Island City, NY 11106
M, R Steinway St

—OPENING NIGHT PARTY AFTER SCREENING—

Studio Square

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REACHING SPACE

Saturday, October 15, 2011 3pm | $15 (includes museum access) »

Join us on an exploration of space through the eyes of cosmonauts, astronomers, NASA astronauts, and artists. This collection of rare and unseen short films creates a unique portrait of our solar system, raising questions about mysteries that science and technology have not even begun to unriddle.

—SCREENINGS—

Naia and the Moon
The Eclipse of Taregna
Cassini Mission
Looking Up
Picture Perfect: Vincent Fournier
Shuttle Endeavor Final Launch
Spacefaring
Yuri Lennon Landing on Alpha 46

—VENUE—

Museum of the Moving Image | Queens
3601 35th Avenue Long Island City, NY 11106
M, R Steinway St

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AVANT-GARDE SCIENCE

Saturday, October 15, 2011 8pm | $8 »

Short experimental films

—SCREENINGS—

Everything is a Remix – Part 3
Telegraphics
(in)Visible
The Chronoscope
The World of Synthetic Biology
Found Footage: The Telephone
Thorium Dream
The Man Machine
Time Freak

—VENUE—

Anthology Film Archives | Manhattan
32 2nd Ave., New York, NY 10003

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SCIENCE FOR NANOS

Sunday, October 16, 2011 2pm |

Kid-friendly short film program

—SCREENINGS—

Do You Know What Nano Means?
Denmark
Archaeology Experts
Seed
Apollo 15
A Love Story… in Milk
When I am 18
Creature Cast: Tangled String
Refraction – The Alphabet
Willem and the Whales
Dinosaur Ballet
Creature Cast: Hollow Trees
Lost and Found
How to Feed the World?
Zero
Virus
We Rule

—VENUE—

New York Hall of Science | Queens
47-01 11th St. Queens, NY 11368
7 to 111th St.

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GENETIC ATTRACTION

Sunday, October 16, 2011 7pm | $15 (includes museum access) »

How do genes, pheromones, behaviors, evolution and ecology influence our romantic relationships? Witness a visually provocative selection of short and feature films investigating the science behind attraction, and the transformative power of technology that is redefining the modern romance.

—SCREENINGS—

Wallace
The Action of Attraction
Donor Unknown

—VENUE—

Museum of the Moving Image | Queens
3601 35th Avenue Long Island City, NY 11106
M, R Steinway St

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CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT

In partnership with the Secret Science Club
Monday, October 17, 2011 8pm |

A short film program comprised of films created by professional and amateur scientists that depicts real footage and unseen data from experiments and research.

—SCREENINGS—

Compressed 02
E. Chromi
Benchwork
Found Footage: Genetics
Centrifugation
How Long. The AMS-02 Experiment
Greenhouse Audioscape
Blank
Creature Cast: Footage from the Deep
Birth of a Flower
The Chosen
Stanley Milgram: The City and the Self
Breast Stem Cells
Protein Expression
Fossil Carrion Feeders
Transgenic Spidergoats
Chasing Birds in Beringia
Solar Sinter Project
Experience Mobile Mobile
Four Letter Words

—VENUE—

The Bell House | Queens (Gowanus area)
149 7^th St. Park Slope (between 2^nd and 3^rd Ave)
F, G, R to 9^th St. & 4^th Ave.

—MUSICAL PERFORMANCE AFTER THE SCREENING—

VICTOIRE
Founded by composer/keyboardist Missy Mazzoli and features Olivia De Prato (violin), Eileen Mack (clarinet), Lorna Krier (keyboards) and Eleonore Oppenheim (double bass). This group, a stirring blend of winds, strings, keyboards and lo-fi electronics, performs Mazzoli’s distinct blend of dreamy post rock, quirky minimalism and rich romanticism.

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CIENCIAS CINEMATOGRAFICAS

Guest Country Initiative 2011: MEXICO | In partnership with the Nature NY & New Scientist
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 8pm | $8 »

As part of the Imagine Science Guest Country Initiative, Chief Editor of Nature Medicine, Juan Carlos Lopez, will host a Mexican film night including pieces by Mexican filmmakers that highlight scientific innovations and technology.

—PRE-RECEPTION—

Join Mexican scientists and filmmakers at the indieScreen Bar for a pre-screening celebration.

—SCREENINGS—

The Perfect Human / El Humano Perfecto
Tungsten Nights / Noche de Tungsteno
Flesh That Remembers / Carne Que Recuerda
An Incomplete Guide to Finding Home
2042
Atmosphere / Atmosfera
Invasion
In Lab / Dentro Del Laboratorio

—VENUE—

indieScreen | Brooklyn
289 Kent Avenue (at South 2nd Street)
L to Bedford Ave.

—AFTER-PARTY: CIENCIA GUEY—

The after-party will include art installations, a DJ, and the video premiere from a new project uniting science and art: The Clipperton Project. The Clipperton Project is selecting 16 artists and scientists from 6 different countries to live and work together on the Clipperton Islands for 3 weeks. Located 1,250 km off the coast of Mexico, Clipperton scientists will research a variety of environmental issues like climate change and the biosphere. Clipperton artists will consecutively produce work based on their individual journeys and the history of the island.
Cantina Royale | Brooklyn
58 N3 st. Williamsburg (between 2nd and 3rd Ave)
L to Bedford Ave.

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SUSPENDED ANIMATION

In partnership with the National Academy of Sciences’ The Science and Entertainment Exchange and Science & the Arts at CUNY Graduate Center | Wednesday, October 19, 2011 7pm |

Flatliners

See film page.

Legendary filmmaker Joel Schumacher will present his classic feature Flatliners, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, and Julia Roberts. Flatliners explores the realm of the afterlife through the story of medical students whose experiments with near death experiences go awry. After stopping and starting their own hearts, the students begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood. The visions intensify and the medical students are forced to go deeper into the death experience to find a cure.

—PANEL—

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion further exploring the scientific theories addressed in Flatliners and the science of death. The panel will be moderated by Radiolab host Jad Abumrad that includes Director Joel Schumacher, Dr. Benjamin Abella, and Christian Macedonia, M.D.

Sponsored by Science and Entertainment Exchange and CUNY’s Science and The Arts program.

—VENUE—

CUNY Graduate Center | Manhattan
Elebash Recital Hall
365 Fifth Ave., NY
B, D, F, N, Q, R, V, W to 34th St. Herald Square
6 to 33rd St.

—IMAGINE SCIENCE 2011 RECEPTION—

Cocktails with Sponsors, Press, Filmmakers and VIP Guests
+ Presentation of Imagine Science Dublin 2012
Plein Sud | Manhattan
85 West Broadway (between Chambers St. And Warren St)
1, 2, A, C, E to Chambers Street

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CELLULOID SCIENCE: HUMANIZING LIFE IN THE LAB

In collaboration with NYAS’ Science and the City, and Center for Inquiry
Thursday, October 20, 2011 7pm »

—PANEL DISCUSSION—

With NYAS’ Science and the City program, ISFF presents a panel discussion on the ability of film to humanize science.

A discussion about humanizing science will be moderated by the popular science journalist and blogger Carl Zimmer, and will feature panelists Dr. Sean Carroll (Evo-Devo HHMI scientist), Dr. Heeger (leading neurocinematics specialists), Valerie Weiss (scientist and award-winning filmmaker), and Dr. Darcy Kelley (neuroscientist at Columbia University and Sloan consultant)

If you know anything about science, you understand that it is a highly complex human endeavor that mixes perseverance and luck, eccentricity and training, and feasts and famines. As a medium, film has the potential to bring us into the inner world of science, breaking down misconceptions about the nature of science by creating an alternate narrative.

—RECEPTION—

NYAS Hosts Cocktails (Wine Bar and Food)
Supported by Center for Inquiry

—VENUE—

New York Academy of Science | Manhattan
250 Greenwich St # 40, New York, NY 10007
1, 2, 3 to Chambers St.

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CLOSING NIGHT | TIME SENSITIVE

Friday, October 21, 2011 8:30pm | $15 »

—SCREENINGS—

Eagleman Stag
The Sierra Project
The Reality Clock
The Dying Physicist
The End of the Olmsted Elm Tree
Planet Z
Life After the Death of Henrietta Lacks
Drift
Until

—VENUE—

Symphony Space | Manhattan
2537 Broadway New York, NY 10025
1,2,3 to 96 St.

—CLOSING NIGHT PARTY AND NATURE AWARD CEREMONY—

The closing night party and Nature Award Ceremony will be held at the Thalia Cafe at Symphony Space. Awards for best short films of the 4th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival will be presented.