Program for the Long Night of the Sciences on July 7, 2023
Location: van Dankelmann-Platz 3, stage in the inner courtyard
Start: 5:00 p.m.
17:00 - 19:30
SILBERSALZ Open Air Cinema
Stories from other worlds: See animated films (ages 7 and up) with fantasy and space travel! Featuring friendly monsters, monkeys and robots, alien scientists, unemployed astronauts, special kids. Hang on, we're taking off.
20:30 - 21:20
Science vs. Fiction - The interactive Hollywood experiments show from MDR Wissen.
Darth Vader has X-ray vision, the Matrix manipulates brains, slime aliens threaten Spiderman: Is this just Hollywood spin or does it work for real?
YouTube host Jack Pop tries it out - together with the audience.
21:30 - 22:30
SILBERSALZ Open Air Cinema
The Longest Goodbye | Ido Mizrahy | IL, CA | 2022 | 52:00
In his heartwarming and thought-provoking documentary, Ido Mizrahy ponders the paradox between our need for connection and the urge to explore the unknown.
Films
AFFENDOMINO | Ulf Grenzer | Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Germany | 2021 | german | 4:04 min
How do we interact with our closest relative, the ape? And what does the destruction of their habitat on the other side of the world have to do with us?
NO GRAVITY
Charline Parisot, Jérémy Cissé, Fioretta Caterina Cosmidis, Flore Allier-Estrada, Maud Lemaître-Blanchart, Ludovic Abraham / France / 2018 / No Dialogue / 07:56 min
A former astronaut can no longer deal with the Earth’s gravity. He proves to be totally unsuited to the jobs offered to him by the job centre. But he unexpectedly gets another chance.
LAIKA & NEMO
Jan Gadermann | Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Germany | 2022 | Animation | No Dialogue | 15 min
Nemo looks different. Nobody else wears a diving suit and such a huge helmet. But then he meets Laika, an astronaut.
MORTIMER AND THE MISSING THINGS
Robert Scheffner | Germany | 2021 | german | 14:22
Order-loving Mortimer (10) wants to know why things have been disappearing everywhere lately. Together with his lively and annoying sister Emma (4), they set off for the land of the disappearing things.
THE ALIEN NIGHTMARE
Lauriane Balestrat, Marc Antoine Alonso, Alexis Sabalza, Elie Berhoumieu I France I 2020 I No Dialogue I 6 min
Mike, Bob, and Frank land on Earth for a scientific expedition. A routine mission for these aliens, but this time, everything won't go as planned…
VALS & RUMBA
Laura Delgado, Eduardo Rodriguez | Spain | 2020 | Animation | No Dialogue | 6 min.
Rumba is the little robot vacuum cleaner in a museum that is never alone. He is accompanied by all the beings that live in the works of art that surround him. And among them, there is a very special statue…
THE LONGEST GOODBYE
Ido Mizrahy / Israel, Canada / 2022 / 52 mins
In the next decade, NASA will send astronauts to Mars for the first time. Separated from Earth and unable to communicate in real time with the ground during the three-year journey, crew members will experience extreme isolation that could seriously affect their mental state and the mission. [346]
THE LONGEST GOODBYE follows a group of scientists* from around the world. Led by Dr. Al Holland, an experienced NASA psychologist, the team goes through a training program whose goal is to find supportive measures and means to cope with the isolation as well as the work of future astronauts* on the planet during long-duration missions. Torn between their dream of reaching new frontiers and the need to stay connected to home, conflicts that transcend spaceflight reveal themselves: How can we reconcile our quest for progress with deep ties to our roots and to each other? [701]
In his heartwarming and beautifully thoughtful documentary, "The Longest Goodbye," Ido Mizrahy ponders the paradox between our need for connection and the urge to explore the unknown.