Center for Science and the Imagination | Science Fiction TV Dinner: Ellipse and astrobiology with Ilana Rein and Sara Walker @imagineASU | Uploaded December 2020 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
The Science Fiction TV Dinner series is a launch pad for imaginative, engaging conversations about science, technology, and society. We use science fiction as an inclusive meeting ground where people from diverse professional and intellectual backgrounds can bring their expertise and knowledge to the conversation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve shifted away from TV series and are instead screening short films by talented creators that invite us to explore a range of possible futures.
This episode features “Ellipse,” a short science fiction film about the search for life in the cosmos written and directed by Ilana Rein. We start by screening the film, and then have a conversation with Ilana, a film director and screenwriter whose most recent film is the feature-length psychological thriller “Perception,” and Sara Walker, an astrobiologist, theoretical physicist, and deputy director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University.
You can learn more about Ilana and her work at https://ilanarein.net, and you can find out more about Sara and her work at http://emergence.asu.edu.
Check out an exclusive video created to accompany this event, featuring poet, artist, educator, and anthropologist Corey S. Pressman teaching you how to cook a celebratory Martian meal with Earth-based ingredients: youtu.be/tNvQnGuct48.
About the Center for Science and the Imagination:
The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University engages in research, outreach and radical collaborations to reinvent our relationship with the future. From writers, artists, and teachers to scientists, engineers, and technologists, we bring diverse intellectual practices together to create visions of the future that are inspiring, inclusive, and imaginative. Learn more at https://csi.asu.edu.
The Science Fiction TV Dinner series is a launch pad for imaginative, engaging conversations about science, technology, and society. We use science fiction as an inclusive meeting ground where people from diverse professional and intellectual backgrounds can bring their expertise and knowledge to the conversation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve shifted away from TV series and are instead screening short films by talented creators that invite us to explore a range of possible futures.
This episode features “Ellipse,” a short science fiction film about the search for life in the cosmos written and directed by Ilana Rein. We start by screening the film, and then have a conversation with Ilana, a film director and screenwriter whose most recent film is the feature-length psychological thriller “Perception,” and Sara Walker, an astrobiologist, theoretical physicist, and deputy director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University.
You can learn more about Ilana and her work at https://ilanarein.net, and you can find out more about Sara and her work at http://emergence.asu.edu.
Check out an exclusive video created to accompany this event, featuring poet, artist, educator, and anthropologist Corey S. Pressman teaching you how to cook a celebratory Martian meal with Earth-based ingredients: youtu.be/tNvQnGuct48.
About the Center for Science and the Imagination:
The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University engages in research, outreach and radical collaborations to reinvent our relationship with the future. From writers, artists, and teachers to scientists, engineers, and technologists, we bring diverse intellectual practices together to create visions of the future that are inspiring, inclusive, and imaginative. Learn more at https://csi.asu.edu.
