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Science on Screen

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Science on Screen is an ongoing film series that combines special screening and conversations including scientists and filmmakers that offer new perspectives on both film and scientific subject matter. Films span from the silent era through those made for the Internet; subjects range from seahorses to robotic clones. The series has featured the work of such filmmakers as Isabella Rossellini, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Agnieszka Holland, and Alex Rivera, who have discussed topics including marine organisms, reproductive biology, epidemiology, and human-robot interactions with scientists including Mandë Holford, Fabien Cousteau, and Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello.

Starting February: Extinction and Otherwise, a series of scripted and non-scripted films that depict extinction, survival, and life as it might be.

Science on Screen is organized by Sonia Epstein, Executive Editor and Associate Curator of Science and Film.

Made possible with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

 

 

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Upcoming Films in Series

In a kitchen, an older chef reaches across a plate in front of a younger chef, whom he is instructing.

Sloan Science & Film Shorts: The Chef and A Hole

Past Films in Series

A young man in glasses sits before a chess board and an old fashioned desktop computer in a black and white image

Computer Chess
Close-up of a hairy underwater amoeba in black and white

Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith
Close-up of a hairy underwater amoeba in black and white

Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith
A nun stands in an empty medical facility looking at salamander cages

A Common Sequence
a mountain wth a blue shawled figure in the foreground

Feet in Water, Head on Fire
A red light flare streaks across a green woods against a blue sky

Herbaria + Agrilogistics
Images from animated films, on the left a white haired female character looks around at a fantastical green world; on the right, two sad stick figures in white stand against a blank black background

The Congress + World of Tomorrow
Horses stand in a windswept field, the sea in the distance

Geographies of Solitude

Good Night Oppy

Earth II

Utama
A man crouches on the ground with a gun, surrounded by men in uniform

Soylent Green (introduced by Bill Nye)

Ascension

Holgut
A faded photograph of an owl looking at camera, surrounded by leaves

Twitch, Pop, Bloom: Science in Action—Program Two Opening Reception

Annihilation

Birds of America

First Reformed

Force Majeure

Science on Screen presents: Jenny Perlin’s Bunker
A fantasy spiral effect of an outdoor scene of two men in a green forest

Constant

Woman in the Dunes

The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
A young boy holds a butterfly on his arm

Son of Monarchs
Visual representations of HAL 9000 computer from 2001, and the voice from the movie Her.

Talking Like a Robot: HAL 9000, Her, and a History of Voice Synthesis
A blonde mother hugging her ponytailed daughter and both smiling

My Zoe: Discussion with Julie Delpy

Radioactive with Rosamund Pike and Marjane Satrapi

Fantastic Voyage and Representing COVID-19

Dirty in the Kitchen: Yeast and Breadmaking with Avery Ruzicka and Nicholas Money

Spaceship Earth: Reimagining the Future with Matt Wolf and Andrew Bell

Woman in the Moon

Contact

Light Year

Kestrel’s Eye

Pica Pica

Tuning into the Sound of Silence

Circle to Sphere: Origins of the Laser Light Show

The Bit Player

Wild Lives: Ming of Harlem + Meshie, Child of a Chimpanzee

The Best Years of Our Lives: Engineering the Body

To Dust: Death and the Necrobiome

Rhinoceros: The Decline of Civilization

2001: A Space Odyssey with Keir Dullea and special guests

Spoor

Searching: What Happens When We Disappear into Our Screens?

Seconds: Starting Over in America

Of the Deep: Films by the Department of Tropical Research

Also see: Proceed with Caution: Science on Screen at the Queens Drive-In.