"Saving Hubble" (2012) Screening - Fall 2012 Tuttle Film Series: Re-Envisioning Film Across the Disciplines"Saving Hubble" (2012) Screening - Fall 2012 Tuttle Film Series: Re-Envisioning Film Across the Disciplineshttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/215471Stokes Auditorium2012-10-25T19:00:002012-10-25T21:00:00
October 25, 7:00PM
Stokes Auditorium
This film screening is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a discussion with director David Gaynes and Dr. Nitya Kallivayalil (Yale, made groundbreaking Hubble measurements of the Magellanic Clouds). Public observing to follow.
Description
Fall 2012 Tuttle Film Series: Re-Envisioning Film Across the Disciplines
Saving Hubble (2012)
Thursday, October 25th 7:00 p.m.
Stokes Auditorium, Haverford College
Directed by David Gaynes 70 minutes
Organized by Beth Willman, Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Followed by a discussion with director David Gaynes and Dr. Nitya Kallivayalil (YCAA Prize Fellow, Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, made groundbreaking Hubble measurements of the Magellanic Clouds).
Thursday, 10/25, 8:45 pm - 9:45 pm: (Weather permitting) public observing at Strawbridge Observatory.
Friday, 10/26, Noon: Visual Studies and the Natural Sciences Lunch with filmmaker David Gaynes and Nitya Kallivayalil, Link 205, Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center.
Saving Hubble is an independent documentary film that examines NASA's decision in 2004 to cancel the famed Hubble Space Telescope and introduces us to the people who united to save it. Many films have been made about what Hubble teaches humans about the universe. This is the first time a film about Hubble has asked "What does this machine say about us?"Saving Hubble is the story of ordinary people finding a voice, and a love letter to the machine that stands as humanity's ambassador to the expanding universe.
David Gaynes is a creative storyteller and emerging independent documentary filmmaker. His first feature, Keeper of the Kohn (2005), won Best Documentary at the Vail Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Palm Beach Film Festival. David is an accomplished cinematographer, having recently photographed the award-winning documentary All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert (dir. Vivian Ducat).
Nitya Kallivayalil is a YCAA Prize Fellow at the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics. She Previously a Pappalardo Fellow at MIT, she received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in the summer of 2007, working with Charles Alcock on the dynamics of satellite galaxies. She won the Fireman Fellowship Prize for her thesis, The Motions of the Magellanic Clouds and the Nature of Galactic Dark Matter. Nitya has used the Hubble, Spitzer, Magellan and MMT Telescopes in her work. She earned her B.A. in Physics summa cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in 2001 and is actively committed to the advancement of women in science.
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This semester, Beth Willman (Astronomy), Patty Kelly (Anthropology), and John Muse (Visual Studies Postdoctoral Fellow) present three films that variously explore vision and visual culture. Each screening will be followed by a public discussion between the sponsoring faculty and the filmmaker. This series is held in coordination with “What You See is What You Get: Vision, Knowledge, and Technology Across the Disciplines,” four conversations concerning visual studies at Haverford sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Library, and the Hurford Center's Tuttle and Leaves of Grass Funds.
Other Screenings:
Night Sky (2010)
Directed by Alison O’Daniel
Wednesday, November 7th
8:00 p.m., Chase Auditorium
Organized by John Muse, Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual Studies, Hurford Center
Mariachi High (2012)
Directed by Ilana Trachtman & Kim Connell
Wednesday, November 28th
7:00 p.m., Chase Auditorium
Organized by Patty Kelly, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Sponsored by the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities’ Tuttle Fund for the Development of Visual Culture Across the Curriculum and Leaves of Grass Fund and the Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center (KINSC).
Link: http://www.savinghubble.com/hubble_html/welcome.php
For More Info
John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities
610-795-6518
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