Program
Saturdays February 6 and 20; March 6 and 20, and April 10 and 24, at 5:30 pm
Saturdays February 6 and 20
MICRO-MACRO
From the Starry Sky to the Subatomic Landscape
Total duration: 48’
The firmament was the first great challenge to human intelligence, the first mystery that led us to wonder about our place in the world. Mankind has invested as much time and effort in getting to know, understand and decipher the enigma of the sky as in discovering the inner workings of our own bodies, the secrets of physical matter, the tiny particles that make everything possible.
Is this journey imaginable without its poetic, expressive... or even Mystical dimension?
Strange Invaders, Cordell Barker, Canada, 2001, 8’30”
Roger and Doris contemplate the stars. A humorous animated film about the feelings that arise in the face of parenthood and the grandeur of the universe.
Baby Squid Born Like Stars, Encyclopedia Pictura and Wholphin, USA, ANY?, 4’
A scientific discovery by Brad Seibel, Steven Haddock and Bruce Robison. This footage confirmed their controversial theory that Gonatus onyx squid brood. The images of the female laying some of her two thousand eggs at a great depth inspired the Encyclopedia Pictura collective to make this film, with a title and music that emphasize the beauty of the moment.
Redshift, Emily Richardson, 2001, 4’
In astronomical terminology «Redshift » is a term used in calculating the distance of stars from the earth, hence determining their age. The geometry of the night sky, with music by Benedict Drew.
Fantastic Cell, Mirai Mizue, Japan, 2003, 7’
Cell-shaped forms move graphically to the music of Tchaikovsky. A personal fantasy in the tradition of visual music by artists like Oskar Fischinger and Norman McClaren. Most of the work by this young Japanese artist work is based on forms inspired by cells.
Relief de l’invisible: Papillon (Shapes of the Invisible: Butterfly), P.O. Lévy, G. Turkieh and J.M. Sanchez, 1999, 3’
Produced with the collaboration of Cité des sciences et de l’industrie in France, this film zooms into matter at a scale invisible to the human eye to reveal its unseen structure and beauty.
Micro-Macro, Encyclopedia Pictura, 2007, 1’25”
A stop-motion animation that goes from subatomic structures to the universe, without microscopes or telescopes and with a whole lot imagination.
Look at the Sun, Emily Doe and Brent Hoff, USA, 2008, 5’
A film made with images from the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that show the sun’s activity. Like Baby Squid Born Like Stars and other artistic films based on scientific footage, it was produced by Wholpin, the audiovisual section of the prestigious publishing house McSweeny’s.
Impresiones en la alta atmósfera (Impressions from the Upper Atmosphere), José Antonio Sistiaga, Spain, 1988-89, 7’ (original in IMAX 70 mm format)
A film hand-painted directly onto the celluloid (the original is in IMAX 70 mm format), which evokes a constantly changing mass. A hypnotic visual experience by one of Spain’s leading experimental film directors.
Powers of Ten Charles and Ray Eames, 1977, 9’
«Eventually everything connects» (Charles Eames)
A classic popular science film made from an artist’s point of view. Powers of Ten still has a huge capacity to expand the way in which we view our world. Starting with a sleeping man at a picnic, the film takes the viewer on a journey out to the edge of space and then back into the atomic structure of his hand, all in a single shot.
Architect and designer duo Charles and Ray Eames directed more than twenty films, many of them educational. On October 10 each year, the Eames Office celebrates «Powers of Ten Day» to promote and share a method of viewing ideas from an infinitesimal to a cosmic perspective.
Saturdays March 6 and 20
Calculated Movements. From the Wheel to the Computer
Saturdays April 10 and 24
The World in my Hands! The Scientific Image in Film
Price
2 eur. per session. MACBA Auditorium. Limited seating. Family activity
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