📅 Fredag 17. oktober 15:00–16:00 | 📍Kulturhuset, Lillesalen | 🎟️ Gratis, åpent for alle
Do you have a research project that would suit the big screen? Or are you a filmmaker who is curious about stories from the field of research?
Welcome to a meeting place for researchers and filmmakers with director Ian Cheney and professor Karin Pittman (Department of Life Sciences, UiB) in conversation. The focus of the event will be inspiring examples of how to communicate research on film.
Ian Cheney is at BIFF this year with not just one, but two films: the research documentary OBSERVER and SHELF LIFE about the secret life of cheese. The filmmaker has been featured in BIFF’s research film program Gulluglen a number of times before, with the documentaries THE MOST UNKNOWN (BIFF 2018), PICTURE A SCIENTIST (BIFF 2020) and THE ARC OF OBLIVION (BIFF 2023).
OBSERVER follows in the playful and curious footsteps of these films, and revolves around the question of whether it is possible to observe the world without influencing it. This is a beautiful and thought-provoking film about seeing, full of scientific facts, inherited knowledge and – not least – childlike wonder in the face of the world.