16mm Documentary Series Vol IV

Two films on photography! A screening of 16mm films from the  Basement Films archive, programmed by Chandler Wigton & Lacey  Chrisco.

Daguerre or the Birth of Photography

Director Roger Leenhardt, 1958, 28 minutes

Physics: Photography – Tool of Scientific Exploration Producer/Writer Norman Kagan, circa 1985, 13 minutes

Followed by a panel discussion with Jill Hartke, Noelle Dorrance, and Angelika Rinnhofer!

Monday, Feb 20, 2023

7:00pm

at Alpaca, 1415 4th St SW

$5 - $10 sliding scale

Black coffee & refreshments

ABOUT THE FILMS:

Daguerre or the Birth of Photography

A  look at the birth of photography from Daguerre to Niepce to Talbot.   This documentary gives a brief overview of the technologies and ideas of  early developments by Nicéphore Niepce, Henry Fox Talbot, and  Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre and the continued evolution of photography.

Physics: Photography – Tool of Scientific Exploration

Scientific  photography records a world of violence and beauty – soaring space  probes and attacking sharks frozen in time; voyages inside the human  eye, along the arteries and veins, and through the body’s invisible  energy patterns.  All of these images and others are captured in this  fascinating survey of photography at work in science, engineering, and  medicine.