WEEK TEN: Visualizing Time and Space

We started this week with the classic POWERS OF TEN film by Charles and Ray Eames (above) (though in actuality we watched a 16mm print of their earlier A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film of Powers ofTen, 1968) Check out the Eames office website too with a nice Powers of Ten interactive sliding scale toy.

Then it was back to the master of science as fiction, Jean Painleve, as he explored time and space in 1936--"Painlevé could blow minds—as in his jaw-dropping “The Fourth Dimension,” which explains dimensional space via juxtapositions and manipulations that Luis Buñuel would envy." said Noel Murray at The AV Club. I would like us to remember that this film ends with a question mark.

Last we explored some of the recent work of filmmaker, artist, and scientist of sorts Reynolds Reynolds,  who --did I mention?--studied both science and film here at CU BOULDER!!! His recent work is called Six Easy Pieces (2010)  and is the last part of a trilogy exploring the imperceptible conditions that frame life--this film in particular is based on the book "Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by its most brilliant teacher Richard Feynman". You can check it out and his other works on VIMEO.


oh, and last but not least, teh mesmerizing animation by Kelly Sears "THE DRIFT" (2007) opened us up to the possibility of  mixing fact and ficiton, watch it HERE