Opening Night Short Films and Panel | The Art of Code

7 PM | Google NY

The Art of Code explores our rapidly-changing computer-proccessed world. Computational art, raw data expressed as breathtaking image or even physical form, and the oscillating line that connects our punch-card past to the trans-human future. Afterwards, join us for discussion exploring the visualization and creation of data stories, followed by a cocktail reception.

Film Program:

Forms
#PostModem
20Hz
System Technology
Amy Karle's Biofeedback Artwork
Modern no.2
Oscillate
Worlds: The Kepler Planet Candidates
Abbau
The Pixel Painter
3D-Printed Record
Gates of Life
Sight
This is and is not a film.

—Followed by–

ISFF VI OPENING NIGHT PANEL: STORYBOARDING DATA
With: Aaron Koblin, Tiffany Shlain, Ali Brivanlou
Moderated by: Alex Pasternack

Short Film Program | The Impermanence of Memory

1 PM | Made in NY Media Center by IFP

Is memory to be trusted? Is anything truly forgotten? Shorts examining perception and recall, freezing time or losing it, and all the ways we hold onto past experience or fail to.

Film Program:

Velocity
Hypochondria of the Heart
Look Inside the Ghost Machine
Memory Sculptor
The Decelerators
The Decelerator Helmet
How Synapses Spark
Hyperlink
Paperbox
Remanence III
Here and the Great Elsewhere

Feature | The Impermanence of Memory

8 PM | Museum of the Moving Image

Live-edited anew each time it screens, Eve Sussman's groundbreaking dystopian noir is endless, unpredictable, and fascinating, its narrative constantly reconfigured before our eyes by a computer dubbed the "Serendipity Machine", from a cache of thousands of video and sound fragments. Poetic juxtapositions emerge and propel a story without beginning or end, but with an infinite number of middle moves.

Feature (90 min): whiteonwhite:algorhythmicnoir

—Followed by–

A CONVERSATION WITH EVE SUSSMAN

Short Film Program | The Earth from Space

12 PM | New School

Outer space is all around us. A collection of films in which we reach for the sun, look back down from orbit, radiate our messages into the void, and try to keep the planet on its course.

Film Program:

Sci-Fly
The ISS Image Frontier
Alien Repair Guy
Someday Somewhere Beyond
Stormy Sun
The Sun
MOOON
Supernova Sonata
Emergency Calls

Shorts and Feature | DNA Dreams

4 PM | New School | Theresa Lang Center

Only a decade after the completion of the Human Genome Project, a young, independent company in China has the means to sequence 200 individual human genomes each day, and intends to pinpoint the genetic basis for intelligence. In the face of this reality, science fiction posits a near future of hacking our own DNA at will and growing carefully selected boyfriends from a kit.

Film Program:

Playground
Simply Complex
DNA Dreams
Return to Sender

—Followed by—

PANEL: DNA ETHICS

Films and Exhibition | Film Lab

7 PM | Made in NY Media Center by IFP

Taking advantage of the impressive multimedia capabilities of the brand new Made in NY Media Center (opening October 3!), we will unveil a set of film installations (four courtesy of bitforms gallery nyc!), observing scientific, digital, and natural processes. The evening will also include the opportunity to be interviewed by a robot, a chance to go out of sync with time, a look at our oceans and phytoplankton, and, of course, a rotating shorts program.

—Film/Video Installations—

Network B (Casey Reas, 2009)
Mesocosm (Wink, TX) (Marina Zurkow, 2012)
Hard Data (R. Luke DuBois, 2009)
Cubic Limit (Manfred Mohr, 1973-74)
Writing (Geraldine Cox, 2012)
Strange Lines and Distances (Joshua Bonetta, 2011)

—Short Film Program—

Micromegas
Shelter
Eclipse
Repeat till Overdose
Distance
Astronomer's Paradise

—Also including—

IMAGINE SCIENCE SATELLITE: QUITO CINE CIENTIFICO
"Amanecer" Kevin, 11 años, from Ecuador visto por los niño. A presentation of the winning animation film from Imagine Science Satellite: Quito Cine Cientifico from last March.

LA BOHEME AND INVISIBLE OCEANS
As part of the Film Lab evening, a film preview of performance piece "La Bohème: A Portrait of Today's Oceans" and an advance screening of short documentary "Invisible Ocean: Plankton and Plastic" will be introduced by DUMBO-based environmental artist (and Imagine Science Artist-in-Residence) Mara Haseltine and filmmaker Emily Driscoll. Afterwards, attendees are invited to Haseltine's open studio for a live performance of "La Bohème".

Retrospective Program | The Vintage Cutting Edge

7 PM | Anthology Film Archives

Buckminster Fuller, early computing, and the forward-thinking recent past. Followed by a conversation with the director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and Buckminster Fuller's daughter, Allegra Fuller Snyder!

Feature: Reflections: R. Buckminster Fuller (1977)

Preceded by:
The Incredible Machine (1968)

Feature | Europa Report

7 PM | NeueHouse

Europa Report

Shorts and Feature | The Poetics of Science

7 PM | Rockefeller University | CRC

Inventive and personal essay-films on the intersection of scientific concerns and our everyday lives: cycles of waste and reclamation, the inescapability of noise, a love poem to light, and impressions of the technological past and present.

—Feature and shorts program (84 min)—

Lights will never be that fast again Into Noise
Resonance
Some Part of Us Will Have Become
As Above, So Below
Simple Machines

—Followed by–

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW: A CONVERSATION WITH SARAH CRISTMAN
Moderated by: Alexis Gambis, Artistic Director and Founder of Imagine Science Films

Panel | Visualizing Scientific Data on the Big Screen

7 PM | New York Academy of Sciences

Film is primarily a visual media and communicates on sensory, emotional and intellectual levels. Science can also be a sensory and intellectual medium, especially when scientists present their data visually. Join the New York Academy and the Imagine Science Film Festival for a discussion that explores how data – from huge data sets generated by genomics to maps of the brain – can be captured through the visual storytelling of film.

Science writer Carl Zimmer and a panel of scientists and artists will explore how scientists use film to communicate their ideas and how artists can use the techniques of data visualization to enhance your scientific and visual experience.

With: Oliver Medvedik, Amy Robinson, Jonathan Fischer
Moderated by: Carl Zimmer

Closing Night Short Film Program | Experimental Nature

7 PM | New York School | Tishman Theater

The human and natural worlds are inextricably intertwined yet have never seemed so far apart. In this program we'll look at some unusual connections between the two: animal naturalists investigating human spaces, empathetic plants, post-industrial ecology, prehistoric creatures lurking beneath our eyes, and humanity's ongoing attempt to escape the most fundamental aspects of its own nature.

Then, in collaboration with The Tribeca Institute, please join us for a cocktail reception after the screening to celebrate the completion of the 6th annual Imagine Science Film Festival and the many more to come.

Film Program:

Gowanus Canal
Genesis
Silent Passengers
From Fireflies to Space Invaders
Other Voices
Herbarium
663114
Fairy Shrimp
We Will Live Again