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 of the virtual  film screenings on Oct 15-16th showcased on the film database and platform Labocine, and an in-person screening of the documentary film Invisible Extinction at 5:00pm on October 15th at Cinema Village.  The Cinema Village event will be followed by Q & A with Katayoun Chamany who is Mohn Family Professor, in the Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Eugene Lang College, Sarah Schenck who is the Director and Producer of Microbe Media, and Steven Lawrence who is a Director and Producer at YerOsha Media. Invisible Extinction details the rise of antibiotic resistance and other changes in the human microbiome as a result of human activities.

For  registration and the full schedule for the week at multiple locations around New York City and virtually see Imagine Science Film Festival.  A Festival Pass costs $30 and allows you to view virtual screenings at your convenience after the initial timed screening and to interviews with filmmakers and scientists. Single ticket options are also available.