The 5th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival, November 8 – 16, 2012
With new events, panels, receptions, and the largest selection of science based films to date, the 5th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival promises to be an exciting week of films presenting scientific fact in compelling visual narrative. This year, the festival will present films that stimulate the synapses and the senses by exploring in the inner mind , the brain in all its states and the meaning of time. Full day programs will be devoted to avant-garde science bits, documentaries, footage from actual lab experiments, discussion about the meaning of dreams and kid-friendly science-based films. The Imagine Science Film Festival is first science film festival in the world founded by scientists. It aims to transform the way science and scientists are portrayed in mainstream media, while emphasizing the importance of storytelling, narrative structure, sand visual communication.
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NOW AVAILABLE
$100
Includes access to ALL PAID screenings and events & Invitation to ISFF Receptions
Tickets for Individual Screening & Events are now available.
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5th IMAGINE SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT
Thursday, November 8, 2012 8pm | $15 GENERAL ADMISSION | $9 STUDENTS & POSTDOCS
MUSEUM OF MOVING IMAGE: Tickets: $15 public / $9 Museum members / Free for Silver Screen members and above. Order online or call 718 777 6800 to reserve tickets.
Feature: THE END OF TIME
US PREMIERE
A unique take on the elusive subject of time and the limits of what can be expressed, The End of Time is an explorative journey from the particle accelerator at the CERN in Geneva, where scientists seek to probe regions of time we cannot see, to the lava flows in Hawaii which have overwhelmed all but one home on the south side of the Big Island, from the disintegration of inner city Detroit, to a Hindu funeral rite near the place of Buddha’s enlightenment.
Preceded by:
ThePresent
Followed by:
Conversation between Director of The End of Time, Peter Mettler and Chief Curator of the Museum of the Moving Image, David Schwartz.
MORE INFO ON POST-SCREENING CONVERSATION
—VENUE—
Museum of the Moving Image | Queens 3601 35th Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11106
M, R Steinway St ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
THE STRANGE SCIENCE OF SLEEP AND DREAMS
In collaboration with NYAS’ Science and the City and Center for Inquiry.
Friday, November 9, 2012 7pm » TICKETS AVAILABLE
INFORMATION AND TICKETS ALSO AVAILABLE AT NYAS
—DREAM MACHINE INTRODUCTION—
A simple flicker machine. You look at it with your eyes shut and the flicker plays over your eyelids. Visions start with a kaleidoscope of colors on a plane in front of the eyes and gradually become more complex and beautiful, breaking like surf on a shore until whole patterns of color are pounding to get in. After awhile the visions were permanently behind my eyelids and I was in the middle of the whole scene with limitless patterns being generated around me. There was an almost unbearable feeling of spatial movement for a while but It was well worth getting through for I found that when it stopped I was high above the earth in a universal blaze of glory. Afterwards I found that my perception of the world around me had increased very notably. All conceptions of being dragged or tired had dropped away…” Brian Gyosin
—PANEL —
With NYAS’ Science and the City program, the 5th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival presents a panel that will unveil the inner dream world of the subconscious. What is the mind doing while we sleep and what do animals dream about?
With stellar scientists, filmmakers and science communicators, we will explore a melange of fiction and non-fiction narratives addressing this topic. The audience will experience a live demonstration of The Dream Machine, an early device created to simulate REM sleep and learn about the the most innovative brain imaging studies have transformed the way we define consciousness.
Panelists:
David K. Randall // Writer, Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep
Alan Berliner // Filmmaker
Matt Wilson // Neuroscientist, Dream Researcher, Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience and Picower Scholar at MIT.
Erin J. Wamsley, Ph.D // Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Moderated by:
Tim McHenry // Director of Public Programs & Performance & Producer Brainwave Series, Rubin Art Museum
—RECEPTION—
Center for Inquiry Hosts Cocktails (Wine Bar and Food)
—VENUE—
New York Academy of Sciences| Manhattan
250 Greenwich St # 40, New York, NY 10007
1, 2, 3 to Chambers St. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
SCIENCE FOR NANOS
Saturday, November 10, 2012 1pm | 
(with ADMISSION TO MUSEUM)
Visually provocative, this mixed programme of short films investigate the role of the experimenter, including unseen footage created by scientists in laboratories and animations from around the world.
—SHORT FILM PROGRAM—
23 degrees, 5 minutes
Animation for Nanos
Avril 14th
Burt Talks to the Bees: Worker Bees
Cependant les instants etaient precieux
Cholesterol: Friend Before Foe
Colin Talks About Elephants
Hinterland
How to Draw Clouds
Life Cycle of a Mushroom
Material of Silence – Leap Records
Minus
Mirror
My Father’s Garden
The People Who Never Stop
Pitch Drop Experiment
Scale
Stairs to No End
Whale Fall
—VENUE—
New York Hall of Science| Queens
47-01 11th St. Queens, NY 11368
7 to 111th St.
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MATH EXPRESSION
Saturday, November 10, 2012 5pm » $8 (TICKETS ON SALE)
Feature: COLORS OF MATH
To most people math appears abstract, mysterious. Complicated. Inaccessible. But math is nothing but a different language to express the world. Math can be sensual. Math can be tasted, it smells, it creates sound and color. One can touch it – and be touched by it…
Preceded by:
The Lesson
Followed by:
Q & A with director of Colors of Math, Ekaterina Eremenko.
MORE INFO ON POST-SCREENING CONVERSATION
—VENUE—
New School
66 West 12th Street, Room 404 (between 5th and 6th) New York, NY, 10011
Subway: N, Q, R, 4, 5, 6 to 14th Street-Union Square; L to Sixth Avenue; F, M to 14th
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AVANT-GARDE SCIENCE
In collaboration with the Tribeca Film Institute
Saturday, November 10, 2012 9pm
—SCREENING & OPEN BAR—
9pm – 1030pm » $10 (TICKETS ON SALE)
Since the early days of celluloid, science and cinema have shared an strong relationship. Avant-Garde Science presents films that are experimental and innovative with respect to their take on science.
“As I lay inside the box in the pitch blackness waiting for the show to begin, I wonder if the operator forgot to start it. Nothing is happening – no sound, no sights…nothing at all. Ah, wait, did I just hear something? Maybe, although perhaps that was just part of the box’s machinery I am not supposed to hear. But now I’m hearing it again, more distinctly – a raspy visceral groaning”
25km2
Burt Talks to the Bees: Queen Bee
The Coffee Ring Effect
Data Dance
Holy Chicken of Life and Music
Insertion Series: Six Composite Acts
Lamina
Lit Tree
Magnetic Reconnection
MicroScope
Doctor Teller’s Strange Loves
Peanut Man
Piattaforma Luna
Re-collection
Resolution
Still Life
Sonic Physiognomy
Tube
Videorative Portrait of Randall Okita
—AVANT-GARDE PARTY—
1030pm onwards » FREE
—VENUE—
The Wooly
The Woolworth Building
11 Barclay St, Manhattan, NY 10007
2, 3 to Park Pl / E to WTC / N, R to City Hall
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FROM ONE BIT TO THE NEXT
Sunday, November 11, 2012 1pm » $8 (TICKETS ON SALE)
Immerse yourself in thought-provoking and entertaining insights into the rich spectrum of human existence, from the DNA level, to the expanse of the solar system. This collection of rare and unseen short films captures unique glimpses of both the microscopic and macroscopic worlds, raising questions about mysteries that science and technology endeavor to address.
—SHORT FILM PROGRAM—
18 Things You Need To Know About Genetics
aDiatomea
Armstrong’s Thumb
Binary
Brain Power
Creature Cast: Corn
Creature Cast: Doliolids
Creature Cast: Echinoderm Skin
Creature Cast: How to Hide
Creature Cast: Gingko
Creature Cast: Lancet Liver Fluke
Creature Cast: Round
Don’t Swim After Lunch
Evolution
Invisible
Microscopic Worlds: Life We don’t See
Slow Derek
Organopolis
Origins
Teen Brain
Voltage
—VENUE—
Liberty Science Center | New Jersey
222 Jersey City Boulevard, Jersey City
NJPATH to Pavonia/Newport / Exchange Place station + transfer to the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
THE BEGINNING OF TIME
Sunday, November 11, 2012 3pm » $8 (TICKETS ON SALE) 
Feature: PEOPLE OF A FEATHER
US PREMIERE
People of a Feather explores the world of the Inuit people of Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay. A unique cultural relationship with the Eider duck connects their past, present and future. Eider down, the warmest feather in the world, allows both Inuit and bird to survive harsh Arctic winters. Both people and eiders face the challenges posed by changing sea ice and ocean currents disrupted by the massive hydroelectric dams powering Eastern North America. The eyes of a remote subsistence culture challenge the world to find energy solutions that work with the seasons of our hydrological cycle.
Preceded by:
A Death on the Frontier
Followed by:
A Conversation with Director of People of a Feather, Joel Heath. >> MORE INFO ON POST-SCREENING CONVERSATION
—VENUE—
Liberty Science Center | New Jersey 222 Jersey City Boulevard, Jersey City
NJPATH to Pavonia/Newport / Exchange Place station + transfer to the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
MICROBIAL BEINGS & THEIR MANY TRAITS
Held in partnership with the Rockefeller University Science & Media Series
Sunday, November 11, 2011 7pm | »
The program will is a homage in film expression to Doctor Norton Zinder’s contributions to science – from the bacteriophage to the human genome project. A beautiful 1960s program Stop or Go: An Experiment in Genetics will also bring us into Dr. Zinder Rockefeller’s lab in 1969. As interlude, we will present portraits of the microorganisms capturing the idiosyncrasies in animation and microscopy.
Dr. Zinder was an American biologist famous for his discovery of genetic transduction. Working as a graduate student with Joshua Lederberg at Rockefeller, he discovered that bacteriophage can carry genes from one bacterium to another. Initial experiments were carried out using Salmonella. Zinder and Lederberg named this process of genetic exchange transduction. Later, Zinder discovered the first bacteriophage that contained RNA as its genetic material.
—FILMS—
Stop or Go: An Experiment in Genetics
Bacteriophage
Micro Empire
Macro Kingdom III
Captivation
—VENUE—
Rockefeller University | Manhattan
1230 York Avenue 10065 NY
4, 5, 6 67th Street/Lexington / F train to 63rd / Lexington ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
DEATH, DISEASES & DEVOTION
Monday, November 12, 2012 7:00pm | » $8 (TICKETS ON SALE)
—SHORT FILM PROGRAM—
An otherworldly program of shorts that will study and explore the nature of death, diseases and consciousness.
38-39 degrees
America’s Dead Sea
A Point Just Passed
Blood Film
Brainy
Combustion
Dinosaur Eggs in My Living Room
Dying Without A Sound
Lazarov
Move
Restoring Sight in Bangladesh
Resuscitation
Snow
Una Furtiva Lagrima
Vovo
—VENUE—
indieScreen | Brooklyn
289 Kent Avenue (at South 2nd Street)
L to Bedford Ave / G to Marcy Ave ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:00pm » $8 (TICKETS ON SALE)
—FILM PROGRAM—
Collectively, the films explore the age-old struggle to define what makes us human and the role of imagination in propelling conscious thought.
abNormal
Everything is a Remix – System Failure
Love, Hate, & Everything Else in Between
—VENUE—
Anthology Film Archives| Manhattan
32 2nd Ave., New York, NY 10003 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
THE GENETICALLY MODIFIED CITIZEN
In partnership with the The Science and Entertainment Exchange & Science & the Arts
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 6:30pm » RSVP
Feature: GATTACA
A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.
—PANEL —
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John Quackenbush // Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH // Robert Henry Levi & Ryda Hecht Levi Professor of Bioethics & Public Policy, Johns Hopkins University
Moderated by:
Michael Rosenfeld // Head of Television and Film, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
—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.
—FOLLOWED BY IMAGINE SCIENCE 2012 RECEPTION—
Cocktails with Sponsors, Press, Filmmakers and VIP Guests
Plein Sud | Manhattan
85 West Broadway (between Chambers St. And Warren St)
1, 2, A, C, E to Chambers Street
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OTHERS SPEAK
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 4:00pm » $8 (TICKETS ON SALE)
—SHORT FILM PROGRAM—
Come check out at the legendary art house in Carroll Gardens, a collection of films told from the point of view of animals for human audiences. Learn about what the plankton has to say or hear the short stories of the whale. And discover the carnivorous world of plants. Lastly, nothing more, nothing less than a primate drama.
Burt Talks to the Bees: Drone Bee
Flag 75: Tara Oceans
Primate Cinema: Apes as Family
The Whale Story
Well-fed
—VENUE—
Cobble Hill Theatre | Brooklyn (Carroll Gardens)
265 Court Street
F, G at Bergen St.; F, G at Carroll St.
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CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS
In collaboration with Secret Science Club
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 8pm »
—BIOBUS GUEST APPEARANCE – 5-7pm—
—EXPERIMENT BY LUIS NIETO—
Prof Nieto’s passion for video has never left him and he continues to film all his experiences and experiments. In 2009, he co-directed with the primatologist Prof. Shibuya, an experimental protocol on animal communication in Japan. They taught the cinematographic language to a monkey named “Capucine”. This successful process led to Capucine getting the title of the first monkey filmmaker in the world.
For his Imagine Science New York debut, Prof Nieto a unique and mind-blowing surprise for the Bell House. Expect the unexpected from this unique evening where science and the surreal become happy bedfellows!
—SHORT FILM PROGRAM—
Challenging the boundaries of fictional narratives and imaginative experiments, this film program explores various ways for visualizing data. From photo microscopy, to time-lapse imaging, take advantage of this rare chance to see some of the first images of microscopic life, captured by historic fine art photographer Roman Vishniac in the 1960s.
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Vishniac Lab
Roman’s Vishniac’s Cinemicroscopy
Periodic Table Table
X inactivation and Epigenetics
Whiskey Water Trick
Locus Solus
Flutter
Optical Illusion
Insane in the Chromatophores
Discovering Mount Gorgonosa
SpacePart12
Legs-atavism
Microscopic Opera
Superluminal Neutrinos in 5 minutes
HP – Hit print
Poems on the Underground
Lego Technic Super 8 Projector
Huber Experiments – Vol. 1
Deconvolution Microscopy
A Rogue Idea
Lord Cry Cry
Myxococcus Xanthus colony
—VENUE—
The Bell House | Brooklyn (Gowanus area)
149 7th St. Park Slope (between 2nd and 3rd Ave)
F, G, R to 9th St. & 4thAve. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
SPACE CONFESSIONS
In collaboration with New York University’s Office of Global Services
Thursday, November 15, 2012 7:30pm » $8 (TICKETS ON SALE)
—SHORT FILM PROGRAM—
Through animations, sci-fi and documentary, experience the world and hear the confessions of the outer world.
The Afronauts
Beyond Expression Bright
Beyond the Spheres
The Cosmonaut
Into Deep Space
No Gravity
Starfield
—VENUE—
NYU Cantor Film Center
36 E 8th St.(between University Place and Greene St.) Downtown Manhattan @ Greenwich
N, R, W at 8th St.-NYU; 6 at Astor Pl.
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WELCOME TO THE MACHINE
Friday, November 16, 2012 5:00pm | » $8 (TICKETS ON SALE)
Feature: WELCOME TO THE MACHINE
NEW YORK PREMIERE
An exploration into the increasing role of technology in human civilization, especially a future in which people and machines become ever more intertwined.
Preceded by:
Humanoids
Followed by:
Q & A with director of Welcome to the Machine, Avi Weider.
—VENUE—
School of Visual Arts Theatre | Manhattan
333 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10011
C,E to 23rd Street (at 8th Avenue) / 1 to 23rd Street (at Seventh Avenue) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
IMAGINE CONSCIOUSNESS
In collaboration with Neuwrite
Friday, November 16, 2012 7:30pm | » $15 (TICKETS ON SALE)
A premier selection of short films addressing the subject of consciousness and imagination. Through these works we examine the age-old struggle to define human consciousness, from Aristotle and Plato to Einstein and modern philosophers. This unique selection from international film-makers looks at what it is that makes us human and the role of imagination in propelling conscious thought.
—SHORT FILM PROGRAM—
Amygdala
Anosmia
The Biological Advantage of Being Awestruck
How To Eat Your Own (Chocolate) Brain!
The Centrifuge Brain Project
In Dreams
Limbic
Love Competition
Motion Painting
My Mind’s Eye
Remains
Visions
Soft Sciences
Schizophrenia
I Do Not Know Who I am
The Human Factor
—PANEL —
With filmmakers, scientists and artists, we will discuss the age-old struggle to define human consciousness. What it is that makes us human and the role of imagination in propelling conscious thought and what scientific and narrative tools exist to express consciousness in scientific research, visual arts and film. This panel will the closing act of the 5th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival, celebrating our 5 years trying to bridge the divide between art and science through the film medium.
Panelists:
Walter Murch // Film Editor, Sound Designer, Writer
Joe LeDoux // Professor and Member of the Center for Neural Science and Department of Psychology at NYU.
Dr. Stuart Firestein // Chair of Columbia University’s Department of Biological Sciences.
Catherine Chalmers // Photographer, artist
Moderated by:
Carl Zimmer // Popular science writer and blogger, especially regarding the study of evolution and parasites. He has written several books and contributes science essays to publications such as The New York Times and Discover.
MORE INFO ON CLOSING NIGHT PANEL
—VENUE—
School of Visual Arts Theatre | Manhattan
333 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10011
C,E to 23rd Street (at 8th Avenue) / 1 to 23rd Street (at Seventh Avenue)
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—CLOSING NIGHT PARTY AND NATURE AWARD CEREMONY—
Friday, November 16, 2012 10:30pm till Saturday morning | » BY INVITATION ONLY (RSVP)
Sponsored by Nature Publishing Group, our film award sponsor, join us for a cozy closing night of the 5th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival at the Norwood Club. Drink cocktails, nibble on some hors d’oeuvres and learn who are the winners of the 5th annual Imagine Science Film Festival in this spectacular 1847 mansion with 13 fireplaces, huge mahogany doors and intricate plaster crown molding. Hidden touches abound, like the carved bird pecking a flower among the mantelpiece’s Carrarra marble foliage. No better place to celebrate science and cinema.
—VENUE—
Norwood Club | Manhattan
241 W 14th St (between 7th Ave & 8th Ave) New York, NY 10011
L to 8 Av / A, C, E to 14 St / 1 to 23rd Street (at 7th Av)
