Winners include Cynthia Lowen for ‘Light Mass Energy’, abut pioneerin physicist Mileva Maric Einstein.
US not-for-profit scientific organisation the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has selected four filmmakers to receive a combined 70,000 in funding as part of the Sundance Institute’s Science-in-Film intitiative.
Writer John Lopez received the 25,000 Sloan Commissioning Grant for Incompleteness, an adaptation of Rebecca Goldstein’s book. Set in the lead up to the Second World War, the story follows Kurt Godel, a logician who falls in love and discovers two mind-bending proofs that shake mathematics and philosophy to their cores.
Previously a writing fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Episodic Lab,...
US not-for-profit scientific organisation the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has selected four filmmakers to receive a combined 70,000 in funding as part of the Sundance Institute’s Science-in-Film intitiative.
Writer John Lopez received the 25,000 Sloan Commissioning Grant for Incompleteness, an adaptation of Rebecca Goldstein’s book. Set in the lead up to the Second World War, the story follows Kurt Godel, a logician who falls in love and discovers two mind-bending proofs that shake mathematics and philosophy to their cores.
Previously a writing fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Episodic Lab,...
- 1/24/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Soukarya Ghoshal’s Bengali film Pendulum- a tale of time, about time travel, released in theatres on March 7
In 1949 Kurt Godel tried to theoretically expand the space-time continuum of Einstein’s Physics by proposing the existence of closed time-like curves allowing for time-travel within a defined universe ‘space’. The theory and the subsequent implications in accepting it were complicated and hence yet to be conclusive. However this concept of traveling in time has been an interesting tenet in much of the fiction and the films of the science-fiction genre.
Needless-to-say, it becomes imperative for any auteur to be masterly clear in her vision of the time dilation in order to reflect that in her art. Cinema being a medium which is supposed to intrigue a wide expanse of the population with varying degrees of intellect, it should be a compulsion for the director to keep the narrative (linear or otherwise) malleable.
In 1949 Kurt Godel tried to theoretically expand the space-time continuum of Einstein’s Physics by proposing the existence of closed time-like curves allowing for time-travel within a defined universe ‘space’. The theory and the subsequent implications in accepting it were complicated and hence yet to be conclusive. However this concept of traveling in time has been an interesting tenet in much of the fiction and the films of the science-fiction genre.
Needless-to-say, it becomes imperative for any auteur to be masterly clear in her vision of the time dilation in order to reflect that in her art. Cinema being a medium which is supposed to intrigue a wide expanse of the population with varying degrees of intellect, it should be a compulsion for the director to keep the narrative (linear or otherwise) malleable.
- 3/12/2014
- by Amitava Nag
- DearCinema.com
Leading character actor Lou Jacobi appeared in numerous productions on stage, film and television during his long career including several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
He was born Louis Jacobovitch in Toronto, Canada, on December 28, 1913. He performed on stage from his youth and began his film career in England in the 1950s. One of his early film roles was as Blackie Isaacs in the 1956 fantasy A Kid for Two Farthings, about a young boy and the sickly, one-horned goat he believes is a magical unicorn.
He made his Broadway debut in the acclaimed drama The Diary of Anne Frank in 1955 as Hans Van Daan, and reprised the role in the 1959 film version. Jacobi was also seen in the 1966 spy spoof The Last of the Secret Agents? with comics Marty Allen and Steve Rossi. He was also featured in Woody Allen’s comedy Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex...
He was born Louis Jacobovitch in Toronto, Canada, on December 28, 1913. He performed on stage from his youth and began his film career in England in the 1950s. One of his early film roles was as Blackie Isaacs in the 1956 fantasy A Kid for Two Farthings, about a young boy and the sickly, one-horned goat he believes is a magical unicorn.
He made his Broadway debut in the acclaimed drama The Diary of Anne Frank in 1955 as Hans Van Daan, and reprised the role in the 1959 film version. Jacobi was also seen in the 1966 spy spoof The Last of the Secret Agents? with comics Marty Allen and Steve Rossi. He was also featured in Woody Allen’s comedy Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex...
- 11/7/2009
- by Harris Lentz
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
On October 23, actor Lou Jacobi passed away in his Manhattan home at the age of 95.
Born in Toronto, Jacobi began acting as a boy, but really kicked off his career in the '50s, playing Captain Noakes in Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary in 1953 and soon making his Broadway debut in 1955 as one of the attic dwellers in The Diary of Anne Frank. Only a few years later, he brought his role as Mr. Hans Van Daan to the big screen opposite Shelley Winters in 1959 and followed it with a long career as a character actor, filled with notable film and television roles.
Cinematically, he played Uncle Morty in My Favorite Year, a plant store owner in Arthur, Herb in Next Stop, Greenwich Village, Gabriel Krichinsky in Avalon, and even Kurt Godel in I.Q. -- his last film. But perhaps his most notable character was Sam Musgrave in Woody Allen...
Born in Toronto, Jacobi began acting as a boy, but really kicked off his career in the '50s, playing Captain Noakes in Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary in 1953 and soon making his Broadway debut in 1955 as one of the attic dwellers in The Diary of Anne Frank. Only a few years later, he brought his role as Mr. Hans Van Daan to the big screen opposite Shelley Winters in 1959 and followed it with a long career as a character actor, filled with notable film and television roles.
Cinematically, he played Uncle Morty in My Favorite Year, a plant store owner in Arthur, Herb in Next Stop, Greenwich Village, Gabriel Krichinsky in Avalon, and even Kurt Godel in I.Q. -- his last film. But perhaps his most notable character was Sam Musgrave in Woody Allen...
- 10/28/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
The sort of intuition-based design you seem to be praising was summed up well by Roger Martin during the 2007 Strategy Conference. He quoted Ag Lafley, "The data is simply an aide to my judgment. The data never tells me what to do." (http://trex.id.iit.edu/events/strategyconference/2007/) In the philosophical sense, you are indeed correct that there are lots of things numbers and quantitative methods - even structured or rational processes in general - don't adequately account for. Kurt Godel proved this rigorously in 1931 - there's no debate. Yet still Newton's and Einstein's physics are both really, really useful. That's because we use them as a part of a process that is driven by intuition. The design we should be aiming for uses metrics and numbers as just one way to understand the world, as an equal partner with our broader understanding.
- 3/25/2009
- by Daniel Erwin
- Fast Company
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