Ciné-Club

Thursday 3 October 2013 at 20:00
CERN Council Chamber

Science is Fiction

Directed by Jean Painlevé (France)

The mesmerizing, utterly unclassifiable science films of Jean Painlevé (1902-89) have to be seen to be believed: delightful, surrealist-influenced dream works that are also serious science. The French filmmaker-scientist-inventor had a decades-spanning career in which he created hundreds of short films on subjects ranging from astronomy to pigeons to, most famously, such marine-life marvels as the sea horse and the sea urchin. We bring to CERN a selection of the best of these, including the rock band Yo La Tengo’s eight-film score The Sounds of Science.

Thursday 10 October 2013 at 20:00
CERN Council Chamber

Man with a Movie Camera

Directed by Dziga Vertov (Soviet Union, 1929)

"Man with a Movie Camera" is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Russian director Dziga Vertov.  Vertov's feature film, produced by the Ukrainian film studio VUFKU, presents urban life in the Ukrainian cities Odessa, Kharkiv and Kiev. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life.  This playful film is at once a documentary of a day in the life of the Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of said documentary, and a depiction of an audience watching the film.  The Man With the Movie Camera will tease and provoke your eyes until its quick cut ending will leave you gasping for more. Discover Dziga Vertov's amazing experimental film and appreciate the creative energies that October 1917 unleashed.

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