Short Film program & Panel Discussion
Life Lines
10.13 | Saturday, 3pm | New School - UL 104
The film program will be followed by the panel discussion Science Documentary as Inspiration or Information. Featuring Greg Boustead (Simons Foundation), Lindsay Blatt (filmmaker, The Most Unknown), Cesar Pesquera (filmmaker, Santa Ana) and Lauren Schwartzman (filmmaker, Dust Rising), moderated by The New School's Pierre Schwarzer.
Survival is the negotiation of many factors, internal and external, to maintain homeostasis. Modern medicine offers us many interventions, as do psychiatry, nutrition, and other related fields, while late night infomercials and dreams may suggest solutions of a more ambiguous kind. And what is the 'normal' point of homeostasis anyway? Are we totally certain or is that too subject to advance or revision? In surveying our physical and mental well-being, this program moves from the birth of the rabies vaccine in 1885 through present disorders on the rise with climate change and then into more speculative territories.
Film Program (TRT 78 min)
Bonne nuit Albertine (Charlotte Arene | 8 min | France | 2017)
Nyctophobie (Jean-François Boisvenue | 9 min | Canada | 2018)
Bird Watch - Episode 2: Health (Zahra Al-Mahdi | 3 min | Kuwait | 2017)
Dust Rising (Lauren Schwartzman | 26 min | USA | 2018)
Reanimation! ep.4 - Tools of Our Own (Nadja Oertelt | 4 min | USA | 2018)
LaZercism (Shaka King | 5 min | USA | 2017)
Jeom (Kangmin Kim | 4 min | USA / South Korea | 2017)
Downside Up (Peter Ghesquiere |14 min | Belgium | 2017)
Hypnagogia (Magdalena Kvasničková | 5 min | Czech Republic | 2017)
Bonne nuit Albertine (Charlotte Arene | 8 min | France | 2017)
Nyctophobie (Jean-François Boisvenue | 9 min | Canada | 2018)
Bird Watch - Episode 2: Health (Zahra Al-Mahdi | 3 min | Kuwait | 2017)
Dust Rising (Lauren Schwartzman | 26 min | USA | 2018)
Reanimation! ep.4 - Tools of Our Own (Nadja Oertelt | 4 min | USA | 2018)
LaZercism (Shaka King | 5 min | USA | 2017)
Jeom (Kangmin Kim | 4 min | USA / South Korea | 2017)
Downside Up (Peter Ghesquiere |14 min | Belgium | 2017)
Hypnagogia (Magdalena Kvasničková | 5 min | Czech Republic | 2017)
The film program will be followed by the panel discussion Science Documentary as Inspiration or Information. Featuring Greg Boustead (Simons Foundation), Lindsay Blatt (producer, The Most Unknown), Cesar Pesquera (filmmaker, Santa Ana) and Lauren Schwartzman (filmmaker, Dust Rising), moderated by The New School's Pierre Schwarzer.
