**Los Angeles Filmforum** presents *Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film, Program 12 – Images of Broken Light: Indexicality in Astronomy II.*

The program will be followed by a panel with Jane de Almeida, Lilly Husbands, Eames Demetrios, and Jheanelle Brown in person, and filmmakers to be announced on Zoom.

A free dinner will be available after the panel!

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Before being ideas, scientific theories are themselves constituted by image making. With computer-generated imagery, it has become increasingly difficult to recognize the indexicality of the film image, mainly because of simulation. In the case of scientific films, this issue is even more delicate, as the image requires a direct recognition of reality, under penalty of not constituting scientific evidence. With increasingly aestheticized images, scientific images in turn are captured from distant spaces, through sophisticated hybrid technologies, very different from the optical array images of telescopes. This exhibition intends to present an overview of films considered scientific, with educational intentions on astronomy since before the invention of cinema, so that the most diverse film techniques used by filmmakers and scientists in different eras can be appreciated.

Curated by Jane de Almeida, Adam Hyman, and Jheanelle Brown.

Film lineup, participant bios and program notes at:

https://www.filmforumexperimentations.org/events

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Interdisciplinary researcher **Jane de Almeida** works in the arts, film and new media fields, investigating the intersection among media, subjectivity and perception. As a professor and researcher, she was Visiting Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at Boston College (1999), Visiting Fellow in the Department of Architecture and History of Art at Harvard University (2005), guest researcher at MediaLabMadrid (2006), and Visiting Scholar in the Dept. of Communication at University of California, San Diego (2007). She holds a Master degree and a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics from the Catholic University of Sao Paulo. Currently, She has been teaching at Mackenzie University in São Paulo, Brazil and at the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego. She has been a member of the editorial and Scientific Board of FILE since 2005. She also organized a seminar about Digital Media called Aesthetic and New Technology.

This is an 18+ event

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LA Filmforum: Images of Broken Light - Indexicality in Astronomy II

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