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The Rockefeller Film Series Print E-mail
By Alexis Gambis
October 2008 Art
The Rockefeller Film Series
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The Imagine Science Film Festival - Science on the Silver Screen

The Imagine Science Film Festival (ISFF) 2008, a Rockefeller Film Series initiated film festival is around the corner. It is a unique event in which New York’s large scientific community is joining forces with artists to present science to the public in a new way. The Festival will run October 16-24 and present artistically ambitious films that incorporate compelling and credible science into fictional narrative. Festival partners include the Rockefeller University, Museum of the Moving Image, NYU Tisch School of Arts, CUNY Graduate Center and Pratt Institute. The Official Festival Sponsor is the journal Nature.

We start the festival with a panel on Science in Fiction - a discussion to be held at the New York Academy of Sciences on the relationship between science and fiction in the cinema.

Film screenings will take place for more than a week all around New York City. ISFF will show more than twenty five short films competition for Nature Film Awards and will feature showcase films including the New York premiers of internationally-acclaimed fare (Blast!) and productions by New York filmmakers (Sleep Dealer, winner of the Sundance Sloan Award 2008).

Join us at Rockefeller’s Caspary Auditorium for three evenings of Imagine Science Film Festival.
  • October 17, Friday, 7:00PM
    Diseases, Discoveries, And Devotion

    A collection of Sloan-awarded short films, are held in partnership with the Museum of Moving Image. Join us for a night of short films showcasing science in the forms of love, death, disease, and atomic destruction. Let us celebrate the fusion of the left and the right brain, mixing creativity with the scientific method.
  • October 20, Monday, 7:00PM
    Disappearing Acts

    This evening presents deception in creative ways. In the short (The Un-Gone), we enter a world of teleportation where individuality is no longer unique. The feature of the night, Fermat’s Room, unveils the story of four people who find themselves forced to solve math problems in order to save their lives, while confined to shrinking walls of Fermat’s room.
  • October 21, Tuesday, 7:00PM
    Portrait of A Scientist

    Come take a glimpse at a handful of scientists that have been forgotten through the ages and yet have contributed to our lives in so many ways.
All film screenings are free.
For an updated schedule including venues and films, please visit www.imaginesciencefilms.com.

Please pre-register today for ISFF kick-off event at the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Science and the City website at http://www.nyas.org/filmfest.
The tickets cost $25 for NYAS non-members and $15 for NYAS members. Tickets are selling out fast- so hurry!
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