Марс (Mars), 1968
Before being ideas, scientific theories are themselves constituted by image making. With computer-generated imagery, it has become increasingly difficult to recognize the indexicality of the film image, mainly because of simulation. In the case of scientific films, this issue is even more delicate, as the image requires a direct recognition of reality, under penalty of not constituting scientific evidence. With increasingly aestheticized images, scientific images in turn are captured from distant spaces, through sophisticated hybrid technologies, very different from the optical array images of telescopes. This exhibition intends to present an overview of films considered scientific, with educational intentions on astronomy since before the invention of cinema, so that the most diverse film techniques used by filmmakers and scientists in different eras can be appreciated.
Curated by Jane de Almeida.
SCREENING
Mapc (Mars)
Pavel Klushantsev, Russia, 1968, digital, color, sound, 50 minutes
The Powers of Ten
Charles and Ray Eames, USA, 1977, digital, color, sound, 9:00
Produced ten years after the Rough Sketch this is an updated, finished version, which also reflects advances in theory and research that occurred since the idea for Powers of Ten was first developed. This version adds two powers of ten—a hundredfold increase—to each end of the journey into the universe, and to the return trip to the microstructure of the carbon atom in the human body. The site of the journey’s beginning was changed to a park bordering Chicago’s Lake Michigan, to allow the journey to approach the disk of the galaxy at approximate right angles. Powers of Ten was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.” Narration available in English, German, Japanese and Mandarin. Atlanta International Film Festival Gold Medal, 1970. U.S.A. Film Festival, 1971. Montreal Psychics Film Exposition & Festival, 1976. Council on International Non-Theatrical Events (C.I.N.E.) 1978 Golden Eagle. Greater Miami International Film Festival Gold Medal Scientific Research, 1978. 22nd Annual San Francisco International Film Festival Participation- Communication Competition, 1978. Music by Elmer Bernstein.
If We Lived On The Moon
Max Fleischer, USA, 1920, digital, 4:30
Cosmos
Episode #5 “Blues for a Red Planet,” Carl Sagan/Ann Druryan, USA, 1980, digital, color, sound, excerpt
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Interdisciplinary researcher Jane de Almeida works in the arts, film and new media fields, investigating the intersection among media, subjectivity and perception. As a professor and researcher, she was Visiting Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at Boston College (1999), Visiting Fellow in the Department of Architecture and History of Art at Harvard University (2005), guest researcher at MediaLabMadrid (2006), and Visiting Scholar in the Dept. of Communication at University of California, San Diego (2007). She holds a Master degree and a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics from the Catholic University of Sao Paulo. Currently, She has been teaching at Mackenzie University in São Paulo, Brazil and at the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego. She has been a member of the editorial and Scientific Board of FILE since 2005. She also organized a seminar about Digital Media called Aesthetic and New Technology.