Imagine Science Films, New York, NY Videos

We love the 16th Science New Wave Festival signal film: an original piece by SNW Luminary @nicoleantebi, with original score by Festival Director @rock_hyrax, which will play at the start of each program ❤️ Learn more, find the schedule and get your pass: https://www.imaginesciencefilms.org/snw16

ISFF15 - Derek Dabkoski & Ian McClellan - Derek Changes His Mind Derek Dabkoski is an award-winning filmmaker whose films have screened at festivals around the world, including the San Francisco and Vancouver International Film Festivals. He completed his undergraduate degree from NYU despite a debilitating physical attack that left him permanently disabled. With a passion for telling raw, personal stories, DEREK CHANGES HIS MIND is a chance for Derek to share an intimate portrait of his burgeoning family as they experience life at the crossroads of neuro-medical science and immigration reform. Ian McClellan started as a company electrician on the 2012 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film Beasts of the Southern Wild. Watch now on Labocine: 5dug.short.gy/8hSdtT For Cinema Village get tickets here: 5dug.short.gy/uvV35m

ISFF15 - Sara Dosa - Fire of Love Sara Dosa is an Indie Spirit Award-nominated director and Peabody award-winning producer whose interests lay in telling character-driven stories about the human relationship to ecology and economy. Her most recent project, FIRE OF LOVE, premiered at the Sundance film festival in 2022 and will be theatrically released and broadcast by NatGeo. Watch now on Labocine: 5dug.short.gy/I4KHzG For Cinema Village get tickets here: 5dug.short.gy/Kq2Y3b

ISFF15 - Ye Ye - H6 Chinese-French director Yé Yé speaks with Yagmur Unal from Imagine Science about the film H6. Director Yé Yé visited the No 6 People's Hospital in Shanghai and followed a series of protagonists, including both patients and doctors. In a sensitive, but not sentimental, way, she shows the different hardships of these individuals. Not only does she give a valuable insight into the Chinese health system, but she also portrays these people’s particular social behaviors and attitudes towards life. We talked to the director about her approach to the topic and her relationships with her protagonists. Watch now on Labocine: 5dug.short.gy/8njhQo For Cinema Village get tickets here: 5dug.short.gy/PRmyCx

ISFF15 - Rafael Palacio Illingworth - Vida comienza, vida termina (Life Begins, Life Ends) Born in 1978 in Mexico City. 2002 Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences. During the two-year master's degree at the American Film Institute in Directing, he received the "Filmanthropy Fundation" award and the 'Daniel Petrie' scholarship. His film VIDA COMIENZA, VIDA TERMINA (2021), which he shot in Argentina and Switzerland, premiered as official selection at FID Marseille, and was part of the official selection at VIENNALE and MOMA's Doc Fortnight. In 2022 he began production on his feature film ALMA, set in the mountains of south Switzerland. He lives in Zurich, where he runs the production company NORA FILMS. For Cinema Village get tickets here: 5dug.short.gy/XeAI3Y Watch on Labocine: 5dug.short.gy/Dd2UK0

Neptune Frost tonight at9 PM Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision. A sci-fi punk musical that's a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that Williams has explored in his work, notably his 2016 album "MartyrLoserKing". Watch online: 5dug.short.gy/wK9gWm Watch at Cinema Village: 5dug.short.gy/Ha1qqZ

ISFF15 - Zoo Lock Down - Andreas Horvath Andreas Horvath is an award winning filmmaker and photographer. He was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1968 and studied photography in Vienna and multimedia-art in Salzburg. Horvath´s films premiered at festivals in Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Rotterdam or Amsterdam. They won best film awards in Karlovy Vary, Chicago, Haifa, Orenburg or Minsk. For Cinema Village get tickets here: https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/zoo-lock-down-imagine-science-film-festival.html?d=20221019 Watch on Labocine: 5dug.short.gy/RKeTsP

ISFF15 - Manthia Diawara - Letter from Yene Manthia Diawara was born in Mali, West Africa. He is a distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Film at New York University. For Cinema Village get tickets here: https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/letter-from-yene-further-further-away-imagine-science-film-festival.html?d=20221018 Watch on Labocine here: 5dug.short.gy/rTT2eQ

ISFF15 - Of Medicine and Miracles - Ross Kauffman Ross Kauffman is the Academy Award winning director, producer, cinematographer and co-editor of Born Into Brothels, which won the Oscar® for Best Documentary 2005 as well as the Emmy for Best Documentary 2005. For Cinema Village get tickets here: https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/of-medicine-and-miracles-imagine-science-film-festival.html?d=20221018 Watch on Labocine: 5dug.short.gy/PDCE5X

ISFF15 - Lars Ostenfeld - Into the Ice Director Lars Ostenfeld takes us in an awe-inspiring cinematic adventure on and into Greenland’s ice sheet, with three leading glaciologists Alan Hubbard, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Jason Box, each dedicated to understanding the scale of the climate crisis and its implications for the future. For Cinema Village get tickets here: https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/into-the-ice-imagine-science-film-festival.html?d=20221018 Watch on Labocine: 5dug.short.gy/bP4vqB

ISFF15 - Ivalo Frank - The Last Human Life on Earth begins and ends with Greenland. Researcher Minik Rosing’s landmark discovery of the first life contrasts with the melting ice masses in Ivalo Frank’s tribute to her beautiful homeland. For Cinema Village get tickets here: https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/the-last-human-imagine-science-film-festival.html?d=20221018 Watch on Labocine: 5dug.short.gy/dBBO30

ISFF15 - Eriberto Gualinga - Helena from Sarayaku Eriberto is a photographer, musician and activist who began making films in his twenties, when he began to document and tell the story of the defense of the jungle following the incursion of a state-backed oil company and the military in his territory. For Cinema Village get tickets here: https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/helena-from-sarayaku-forests-imagine-science-film-festival.html?d=20221018 Watch on Labocine: 5dug.short.gy/8d4wHI

ISFF15 - Andres Kaiser - Teorema de Tiempo Director Andres Kaiser says about his career: “ I dedicate my life to cinema. Sometimes horror, sometimes documentary, always into stories that demand deep deciphering.” For Cinema Village get tickets here: https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/time-theorem-imagine-science-film-festival.html?d=20221017 Watch on Labocine: 5dug.short.gy/kqiVmu

The Human Trial screens today at 5pm Unprecedented, real-time access to the world's sixth embryonic stem cell trial. An intimate journey with the patients and scientists who put themselves on the line. By Lisa Hepner, Guy Mossman, USA, 92 min, 2022 - East Coast Premiere Watch online: 5dug.short.gy/QkRWhV Watch in-person 5dug.short.gy/B5zmJi

ISFF15 - Jake Wachtel - Karmalink Director Jake Wachtel speaks about the process of creation, production and development of his film Karmalink. His Phnom Penh-set short film The Foreigner Here premiered at the Cambodian International Film Festival alongside the works of a new wave of young Cambodian directors. Phnom Penh became his home base for several years as he developed Karmalink – Cambodia’s first sci-fi movie – set in the community where he taught, starring his former students. For Cinema Village get your tickets here: https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/karmalink-imagine-science-film-festival.html?d=20221016 Watch on Labocine: 5dug.short.gy/ijTr5w

ISFF15 - Ham Tran - Maika: The Girl from Another Galaxy Ham Tran is a Vietnamese American film writer, editor, and director. In his films, stories gone untold too long are unraveled, voices kept silent too long are heard. They are the stories of the Vietnamese boat people and the survivors of education camps, and they are not easy to tell. Tran found his way to do so through laughter. For Cinema Village get your tickets here: https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/maika-the-girl-from-another-galaxy-imagine-science-film-festival.html?d=20221016 Watch at Labocine.com: 5dug.short.gy/fiKO1f

Maika - The Girl From Another Galaxy - Screens at 5 pm today! After losing his mother to illness and his best friend to an unexpected move, a young boy discovers a crashed spaceship and makes a new friend with awesome powers (although she does need a little help with her earthly social skills). Together, they embark on a zany, fun-filled adventure while taking on the bad guys and helping Maika find her way home. Watch on Labocine: 5dug.short.gy/2fB3vF Watch at Cinema Village: https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/maika-the-girl-from-another-galaxy-imagine-science-film-festival.html?d=20221016

Conceived as a way to interrogate processes of neo-colonialism, and highlighting the alienating effects of technological progress, Jake Wachtel's "Karmalink" is a mind-bending tale of reincarnation, artificial consciousness, and the search for enlightenment Watch Karmalink at Labocine 7PM tonight! 5dug.short.gy/G5Jtec Or go to Cinema Village: 5dug.short.gy/cRCQ0N

Writer and director Chema García speaks about his film "The Sacred Spirit" for Science New Wave Conversations His ‘domestic science-fiction’ films have screened at festivals worldwide, including at the Berlinale, Sundance, San Sebastián, Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and Ann Arbor. He teaches ‘anti-filmmaking’ at the Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid. Watch in Labocine: 5dug.short.gy/q1Ktkp For Cinema Village get your tickets here: https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/the-sacred-spirit-imagine-science-film-festival.html?d=20221015

Elizabeth Unger speaks with one of Imagine Science programmers Pam Martinez, about her film Tigre Gente for the Science New Wave Conversations Elizabeth is a National Geographic Explorer and filmmaker whose work has been featured in National Geographic Magazine. Elizabeth was selected as one of five North American Regional Finalists for the prestigious UN Young Champion of the Earth Prize and is a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee for her feature debut, TIGRE GENTE. The film took her six years to complete and she recently celebrated its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival 2021. Watch the film at Labocine: 5dug.short.gy/RUjm2G For Cinema Village get your tickets here: https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/tigre-gente-imagine-science-film-festival.html?d=20221015