Imagine Science Film Festival New York

Film Listings

	2000: a documentary science fiction A black & white celluloid sci-fi film in retro style for a new world in which hand in hand man and robot would be building a better life.
	6ft in 7mins 6ft in 7min is a short dark comedy about Rajeev Reddi, an East Indian guy, who has always has been surrounded by death. Today, on Rajeev’s 18th birthday, his parents will finally tell him why.
	Abigail A teenage girl disappears under mysterious circumstances only to become an international icon overnight. When her best friend goes looking for her, she must navigate environments both real and virtual to find out what her disappearance means not only to their friendship, but to all of society.
	After tomorrow Returning to the village of his estranged wife, James grows increasingly concerned when the sinister owner of the guesthouse refuses to let him leave. A psychological suspense with a surprising yet moving denouement.
	Animated Minds Real testimony from survivors of mental illness, combined with engaging and sometimes humorous visuals, to climb inside the minds of the mentally distressed.
	The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5 Robots send messages via telepathy to one man about the destruction of Earth and how he is the only person who can save it.
	Babbage Charles Babbage, the man who invented the world’s first computer and failed to build it.
	Big Bang Day At 10.28am on 10 September 2008 the first beam of protons was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. Adam, a PhD student at CERN, introduces us to life at the world’s largest physics lab and the excitement surrounding “Big Bang Day.”
	The Clone Returns Home Human cloning is no longer science fiction, but a reality. Technology is such that cloned human’s minds can be implanted and completely merged with the memories of their forbears.
	Chances Are When a probability geek loses a $20 bill with a girl’s phone number on it, he tries to calculate where the bill, and his chances for love have ended up.
	Coagulate Absence, presence and aquatic distortions in this choreography of fluids, mysterious forces twist the physical laws and affect the behaviour of living beings in purified spaces.
	Decoding Alan Turing Alan Turing was a brilliant Mathematician, Logician and Cryptographer. A Cambridge graduate, who was fundamental to cracking the Nazi’s Enigma Code during WWII, who created what is hailed by some as the first modern computer and was a legendary innovator in his field.
	Dharini In the aftermath of a tragic accident, a smart, scientifically inclined teenage girl struggles to redefine her understanding of nature’s forces.
	Dreams of a Scientist What do scientists dream of?
	The Ecstasy and Agony of Planet X For 76 glorious years, Pluto remained a proud member of our solar system. Then, in 2005, a challenger to the mantle of the true ninth planet was discovered.
	The Exquisite Corpse of Science What happens when a scientist, a professional communicator, and the public are asked to think about what is important in science today….AND THEN DRAW IT? All is revealed in The Exquisite Corpse of Science!
	Extropy A geneticist discovers the key to stopping the aging process.
	Five The five senses, through the eyes and imagination of a young boy…
	Ginger Comedian Paul Smith gets back to his red-haired roots and explores the upside of his genealogy.
	Hairytale Saving the world, one hair at a time.
	Improvisations No. 2 A turning ritual under the West Side Highway through the ‘technological’ dilating eye.
	The Incident at Tower 37 Day in and day out the lone steward of a water processing station monitors the tower’s activities, never realizing that the tower is slowly destroying an entire ecosystem. But when two unexpected guests arrive, the tower’s operator learns the high cost of his ignorance.
	In Search of Memory “Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing,” says neuroscientist Eric Kandel, winner of the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking research on the physiology of the brain’s storage of memories.
	Inside Me Using cutouts, drawing, hand-held animation, and voiceover, Tirilis takes viewers on a tour through the inner workings of his bodily functions—from the bugs living in his entrails to the computer in his brain.
	Killers of the Earth Two delightful aliens demolish planets for a living, and their next assignment is the earth.
	Lab Waste A brief look at waste byproducts of life science research.
	Leonardo Leonardo da Vinci and his dream of flight. An allegory for the creative muse.
	Les Outils Seeing his faithful friend quietly losing the battle against the disease, Jean-Pierre does not let things go. Knowing that his friend is a true believer of the Catholic religion, he decided to invent an appearance of the Virgin Mary.
	Magnetic Movie The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries.
	Malice in Wonderland: The Red Queen Theory Sometimes, unexpected guests can very quickly become pests. But what happens when you ask them to leave?
	MEPE Investigation around killings of unusual animals by a strange private detective named Dick Mipy. We sought to better understand the evolutionary patterns of MEPE in mammals and when and how its functional regions were acquired during evolution.
	A Micrometer from Here It’s comic surrealistic short movie measuring daily life in single units and multiplying them by powers.
	The MisInventions of Milo Weatherby When young inventor, Milo Weatherby, accidentally creates a time machine, he and his best friend Levi set out on an adventure through time.
	The Moth and the Firefly A moth goes on a journey to find a new light during a New York City blackout and finds an unlikely friend.
	Naming Pluto Naming Pluto is a heartfelt account of an extraordinary event in astronomical history and an inspirational gem for youth audiences.
	Natural Selection An eccentric old man solves the mystery of time travel, but cannot unravel the secrets of natural selection…
	Parallelostory Spend a couple minutes in the multiverse and you may find it comfortable enough to participate in your own Parallelostory, which is just hip meta-universe slang for “parallel love story”.
	PCR Rap Biochemistry as you’ve never experienced it before: The Science Rapper makes you feel as if its your first time replicating DNA.
	Planes Lapse While recording this time lapse the main idea was to catch as many airplanes trails as possible, in order to see how those vaporized trails would have been displayed when recording at 1 frame per second.
	Problems Life as a theoretical physicist can be tough, particularly when your brand new $6 billion super-collider breaks down.
	Psych Out Does the Helix Nebula look like a human eye…and why do we think we see well-known objects in nebulous images from space? An astronomer and his therapist clash over the issue in this comedic but educational animated short.
	Quantum Quest Dave (voiced by Chris Pine), a photon who lives in the sun, is drawn into an epic galactic battle between Good (as embodied by The Core, voiced by William Shatner) and Evil (The Void, voiced by Mark Hamill) which will determine the fate of humanity and the universe in this CGI-animated, 3-D/2D Large Format adventure designed to get kids excited about science.
	Sizzle Director Randy Olson sets out to make a global warming documentary, but first he must confront his own cameraman, a global warming skeptic.
	Skylab It’s the summer of 1979 and 12 year-old Benj Handle has plenty to worry about–his mom’s about to get remarried, and a 90-ton chunk of NASA space trash is heading right for his house.
	Skylight Skylight is a mock animated documentary about the ecological plight of penguins  in the Antarctic, possibly foretelling cataclysmic results for the rest of the world.
	So Far and Soar A portrait of a woman and the invisible connections that fill her world, leaving her with nothing to grasp until a solid connection is made.
	The Strange Rebirth of Andre Weil A boy meets girl… boy gets shot in the head… boy turns to God short film. Inspired by a true story.
	Universal Superkinetics A high school freshman’s approach to a girl he likes is mirrored in a cause and effect relationship during a presentation of his science project; a rube goldberg machine.
	What’s the Matter at CERN? A short documentary about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Features interviews with leading physicists and popular science experts.
	Wormhole Chasers According to the logarithmic map of the universe, the poles are aligned — which can only mean one thing: a wormhole is about to open in the corner of Marjorie Adam’s apartment.

THE FILMS: ISFF 2009

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