Short Film Program / Imagine Science Film Festival
What future existences lie at the edges of our own mortality? For our distant ancestors, fossilization may have provided access to an ambiguous immortality, allowing the long-expired to return suddenly to a new relevance and controversy, but modern technology has seen the emergence of new bids for eternity: cryonics, transhumanism, and genetic archives. And from the depths of cryopreservation, fossilization, or the blank eternity of a coma, what dreams emerge?
The film program will be followed by the Immortality panel featuring filmmakers Eric McEver, Nadja Oertelt, Jackson Polys and Esteban Rivera Ariza, moderated by The New School’s Assistant Professor of Anthropology and artist Abou Farman Farmaian.
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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.
/ 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: Sat., Oct. 13, 2018 at 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Where: The New School
66 W. 12th St.
212-229-5108
Price: $12
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Short Film Program / Imagine Science Film Festival
What future existences lie at the edges of our own mortality? For our distant ancestors, fossilization may have provided access to an ambiguous immortality, allowing the long-expired to return suddenly to a new relevance and controversy, but modern technology has seen the emergence of new bids for eternity: cryonics, transhumanism, and genetic archives. And from the depths of cryopreservation, fossilization, or the blank eternity of a coma, what dreams emerge?
The film program will be followed by the Immortality panel featuring filmmakers Eric McEver, Nadja Oertelt, Jackson Polys and Esteban Rivera Ariza, moderated by The New School’s Assistant Professor of Anthropology and artist Abou Farman Farmaian.
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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.
/ 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. /
Buy tickets/get more info now
When: Sat., Oct. 13, 2018 at 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Short Film Program / Imagine Science Film Festival