The Imagine Science Film Festival, now in its 15th year, is an experimental interdisciplinary sci-art festival seeking to open new dialogues between scientists, filmmakers, and artists. Over the week of October 14 - 21, through an intersection of genres, subjects, fact and fiction, the festival will be exploring crucial scientific issues through film, panels, and collaborations, such as Symbioses, a collaboration involving pairs of scientists and filmmakers who produce a film in one week and screen it on the last day of the festival.
This year’s theme is SCIENCE NEW WAVE. Scientific storytelling is increasingly and fearlessly experimenting in form and style. Scientific stories are becoming more personal and hybrid, tackling issues pertaining both to the individual and the world at-large. How are artists, scientists and educators working together to create singular narratives? The boundaries between scientific data and cinema magic are dissolving. Similar to developing organisms, science films are emerging with new traits and new forms. To learn more about Science New Wave read the manifesto and view a short video.
Eugene Lang College is a proud co-sponsor and will be hosting film screenings from the Imagine Science Film Festival, on Oct 15-16th on the film database and platform Labocine. Additionally, the college offers an intensive eight-week course in association with the festival - space is still available. Course starts on September 8th and is taught by Lang alumna Alison Irvine, a professional science communicator and artist. As part of this year’s festival, Jess Irish, Associate Professor of Design and Technology at Parsons, will be showcasing her film Mortal Plastik which won the “Best Environmental Film” at the Cannes World Film Festival in 2021.
If you are a filmmaker, you can submit your film - docs, fiction, animation - science in all its flavor. Submissions are being accepted through August 15th. For more information visit Imagine Science Film Submission and use the waiver SCIENCENEWWAVE22 on FilmFreeway.com/ImagineScienceFilmFestival to avoid the submission fee.
Come back to this page to see the full schedule for the week at multiple locations around New York City and virtually on Labocine.
Sponsored by Imagine Science Films and the Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at The New School's Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Design and Technology at New School’s Parsons School of Design