11th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival Feature: Man with the Magic Box

Feature Film | Imagine Science Film Festival

New York Premiere at Spectacle Theatre! A man without a memory and a woman whose success hides emptiness grapple with life in dystopian future Warsaw and are drawn into the 20th-century past. But such an escape may not be allowed. A unique love story unfolding under omnipresent crisis and totalitarian oversight, crossing between collapsing near future and Soviet history, The Man with the Magic Box nods to the classic while remaining very much itself. The pleasure of viewing, as much as in the mysterious storyline and strange, perfect performances by the leads, is in the subtle, meticulous detail of the world. Here, people are relentlessly cut off from one another, terrorism is either inescapable or a real-estate development tool, advertising uncomfortably personal, and all aspects of life metered by a credit chip implanted in the hand. At turns bleak, absurd, unsettling, and oddly affecting, the film defies synopsis while advancing with effortless imagination. A future cult favorite in the making!

Preceded by Exhale (Magali Magistry, France, 2017)

A toxic fog blankets the planet forcing people to live confined. But when you are fifteen like Juliette, real life truly begins outside.

The 11th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival takes place October 12-19 in New York City, and all of the events are low cost or free. The festival includes short and feature-length films, live cinema performances, discussions, interactive demonstrations and more taking place at museums, universities and cultural institutions across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Several of the films will be making their U.S. debuts at the festival.
For the complete program, visit: http://www.imaginesciencefilms.org/ny11
/ Crisis. Entropy. Extinction. This year we look at the high stakes for all life on Earth and beyond. Between nuclear proliferation, species loss and dwindling resources, existence itself is not assured. But for every dystopia, a corresponding utopia may be within reach. It may be a struggle, but the record of all life is that of an eon-spanning fight to stay alive. We’ll feature tumultuous natural history and startling feats of adaptation. Apoptosis versus immortal cell lines. Half-lives and radical life extension. The deaths of stars and extraordinary paths to SURVIVAL.










When: Tue., Oct. 16, 2018 - Wed., Oct. 17, 2018 at 10:00 pm - 12:00 am

Feature Film | Imagine Science Film Festival

New York Premiere at Spectacle Theatre! A man without a memory and a woman whose success hides emptiness grapple with life in dystopian future Warsaw and are drawn into the 20th-century past. But such an escape may not be allowed. A unique love story unfolding under omnipresent crisis and totalitarian oversight, crossing between collapsing near future and Soviet history, The Man with the Magic Box nods to the classic while remaining very much itself. The pleasure of viewing, as much as in the mysterious storyline and strange, perfect performances by the leads, is in the subtle, meticulous detail of the world. Here, people are relentlessly cut off from one another, terrorism is either inescapable or a real-estate development tool, advertising uncomfortably personal, and all aspects of life metered by a credit chip implanted in the hand. At turns bleak, absurd, unsettling, and oddly affecting, the film defies synopsis while advancing with effortless imagination. A future cult favorite in the making!

Preceded by Exhale (Magali Magistry, France, 2017)

A toxic fog blankets the planet forcing people to live confined. But when you are fifteen like Juliette, real life truly begins outside.

The 11th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival takes place October 12-19 in New York City, and all of the events are low cost or free. The festival includes short and feature-length films, live cinema performances, discussions, interactive demonstrations and more taking place at museums, universities and cultural institutions across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Several of the films will be making their U.S. debuts at the festival.
For the complete program, visit: http://www.imaginesciencefilms.org/ny11
/ Crisis. Entropy. Extinction. This year we look at the high stakes for all life on Earth and beyond. Between nuclear proliferation, species loss and dwindling resources, existence itself is not assured. But for every dystopia, a corresponding utopia may be within reach. It may be a struggle, but the record of all life is that of an eon-spanning fight to stay alive. We’ll feature tumultuous natural history and startling feats of adaptation. Apoptosis versus immortal cell lines. Half-lives and radical life extension. The deaths of stars and extraordinary paths to SURVIVAL.
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