Performing the Night Sky and The Incredible Shrinking Man (Visions of Scale: Magnification, Duration, Perspective, Projection)
Event on 2013-03-15 19:00:00
Location:
Logan Center, Screening Room 201
915 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL
Performing the Night Sky: Heavenly Bodies, Microcosms and the Moving Image
Before the night sky could be registered by photographic magic lantern slides, it was performed by "moveable astronomical sliders": voice, music and projection. Featuring digital reanimations of the Adler Planetarium's mechanical astronomical lantern slides, this audio-visual presentation unleashes their otherworldly potential.
Artemis Willis (Ph.D. candidate, CMS, University of Chicago) is a curator of media art and nonfiction filmmaker whose scholarship focuses on the international history, practice and culture of the magic lantern.
(Artemis Willis, 2012, presentation, 10-15 minutes)
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Scott Carey (Grant Williams) seems to have it all: a good job, a beautiful wife, and a house in the suburbs. But when this 1950s Everyman is exposed to a strange combination of radiation and insecticide, he begins to shrink uncontrollably. After medical science can find no cure, the problems of shrinking prove greater than finding clothes that fit and having to stand on tiptoe to kiss his beloved. The Incredible Shrinking Man showcases the cinema’s unique capacity to manipulate scale visually and viscerally, from the construction of oversized props and décor to special photographic effects that pit Williams mano-a-spider in the film’s thrilling and iconic climax.
(Jack Arnold, 1957, 35mm???, 81 min)
Visions of Scale: Magnification, Duration, Perspective, Projection
A 2-part film series developed by CMS Ph.D. candidates Matt Hauske and Junko Yamazaki, presented in conjunction with the Department of Cinema and Media Studies 2013 Graduate Student Conference, Visions of Scale: Magnification, Duration, Perspective, Projection, taking place at the Logan Center on April 5-6.
at University of Chicago
5801 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, United States
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