A Look at Dave Douglas and Bill Morrison’s Spark of Being

Spark of being (Bill Morrison, 2010)
Place: CGAI (Durán Loriga, 10; A Coruña)
Date and time: October 5th, 20:00
Free entrance

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Richard Fleischer writes about his father’s scientific films

“Max’s ambitions seemed to have expanded with the new workspace and the spreading, international popularity of his Ko-Ko the Clown. Max had started thinking about making films that were longer than a single reel when something came along that captured his imagination, along with that of the rest of the world: Einstein’s theory of relativity. The press had given the theory plenty of attention, and the public showed enormous, but bewildered, curiosity about it. It was said that only about seven people in the world understood Einstein’s theory, yet everyone was talking about it. For Max, with his scientific mind and background, the idea of making a serious film that would give the average person some idea of what it was all about was irresistible. So, in the same year as the move to 1600 Broadway, Max commenced work on Einstein’s Theory of Relativity by enlisting the help of Professor Garret P. Serviss, the highly esteemed science writer for the New York American, as well as other scientific mavens who were experts in Einstein’s field of interest.

Max was really impressed with Serviss. Describing him in his unpublished autobiography, he writes: “During the production of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity I was quite close to Prof. Serviss, an elderly man, somewhat hard of hearing but amazingly brilliant and with a mind that worked with the speed of light. His knowledge fascinated me as much as the work of making the picture. I realized that right near me was a mind which I could never attain.” And this from a man who was frequently referred to as a genius himself. I include this quote because it reflects perfectly my father’s self-effacing personality, his total lack of ego, and his recognition and appreciation of the worth of others.

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Scientific cinema in Porto

Portuguese documentary film series organized by Noite Europeia dos Investigadores 2011 with the support of Associação Viver a Ciência, Asociación de Amigos da Casa das Ciencias (AACC) and Mostra de Ciência e Cinema.
Free entrance.

Program:

September 7th, 19h30: Anos Lusos (José Coimbra, Tiago Guimarães and Ari Carvalho, 2009). 50 minutes. Auditório Ruy Luis Gomes (4º piso da Reitoria, Praça Gomes Teixeira), Porto

September 14th, 19h30: A Utopia do Padre Himalaya (Jorge António, 2004). 51 minutes. Auditório Ruy Luis Gomes (4º piso da Reitoria, Praça Gomes Teixeira), Porto

September 21st, 19h30: Orlando Ribeiro, Itinerâncias de um Geógrafo (António João Saraiva and Manuel Carvalho Gomes, 2010). 58 minutes. Auditório Ruy Luis Gomes (4º piso da Reitoria, Praça Gomes Teixeira), Porto

September 23rd, 17h30 – 24h00. Reitoria da Universidade do Porto, Praça Gomes Teixeira, Porto:

1 Minuto de Astronomia (Vanessa Fernandes, 2009). 13 X 1 minuto (13 minutes).

Photomaton (Sofia Ponte and Tiago Pereira, 2010). 50 minutes.

Milho (José Barahona, 2009). 54 minutes.

A flor, a formiga e a borboleta ameaçada (Bruno Cabral, Ivânia West and Patrícia Garcia-Pereira, 2008). 25 minutes.

Na Esteira de Egas Moniz (Rui Pinto de Almeida, 2005). 58 minutes.

Anos Lusos (José Coimbra, Tiago Guimarães and Ari Carvalho, 2009). 50 minutes.

A Utopia do Padre Himalaya (Jorge António, 2004). 51 minutes.

Orlando Ribeiro, Itinerâncias de um Geógrafo (António João Saraiva and Manuel Carvalho Gomes, 2010). 58 minutes.

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Festival trailer: Arao (Xurxo Chirro, 2011)

Xurxo Chirro, director who has participated in all the editions of the Mostra de Ciencia e Cinema, has created this trailer for our festival. The short film Arao (Common Murre) was made with non-used material from Vikingland, his first feature, selected for FID Marseille 2011.

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Portuguese documentary film series

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