| Description |
1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; stereo; widescreen presentation. |
| Performer |
Michael LaFosse, Richard Alexander, Eric Joisel, Dr. Robert J. Lang, Akira Yoshizawa, Paul Jackson, Chris Palmer, Vincent Floderer, Miri Golan, Dr. Thomas Hull, Dr. Erik Demaine & Marty Demaine, Brian Chan, Satoshi Kamiya, Dr. Bernie Peyton; artwork by Giang Dinh, Jean-Claude Correla, Miyuki Kawamura, Tomoko Fuse, Joel Cooper, Erick Gjerde. |
| Credits |
Executive producer, Sally Rosenthal ; original score, Gil Talmi ; editor, Kristi Barlow ; cinematography, Melissa Donovan, Philippe Bellaiche ; still photographs, Lynton Gardiner ; translations, Sophia Bastian, Elisabeth von Debschitz, Ula von Debschitz, Ariel Friedman, Judy Friedman, Joy Gila, Al Jerrari, Kana Kimoto, Toshiko Kabayashi, Dorian Saintier, June Sakamoto. |
| Summary |
Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. This film chronicles 10 of their stories: three of the world's foremost origami artists, less conventional artists, abstract artists, advanced mathematicians and a remarkable scientist who received a MacArthur Genius Award for his computational origami research. While debates ebb and flow on issues of folding technique, symbolism and purpose, this film shows how closely art and science are intertwined. The medium of paper folding--a simple blank, uncut square--emerges as a metaphor for the creative potential of transformation in all of us. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The artisan -- The artist -- The engineer -- The father -- The bug wars -- The great debate -- The postmodernist -- The choreographer -- Les anarchistes -- Functional form -- Theory of everything. |
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Special features: Featurette: Origametria (8 min.) [short film about a teaching program run by the Israeli Origami Center (IOC)] ; Outtakes (25 min.): Papermaking -- Life as a folder -- Art / Science -- Problem(s) with paper -- Purpose & pattern -- Future ambitions -- Next big thing; Trailer (2 min.). |
| Awards |
Winner, 2010 Peabody Award; 2009 Indie Spirit International Film Festival: Best Documentary; 2009 Scinema International Film Festival: Best Film; 2008 New Hampshire Film Festival: Audience Choice Award. |
| Language |
Closed-captioned. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Origami.
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Paper work.
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Paper sculpture.
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Career changes.
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Artists -- France -- Interviews.
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Artists -- Israel -- Interviews.
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Artists -- Japan -- Interviews.
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Artists -- United States -- Interviews.
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Scientists -- United States -- Interviews.
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Mathematicians -- United States -- Interviews.
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Biologists -- United States -- Interviews.
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Art in education.
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Art and science.
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Science in art.
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Mathematics in art.
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| Added Author |
Gould, Vanessa. Screenwriter. Director. Producer.
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LaFosse, Michael G.
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Alexander, Richard L., 1953-
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Joisel, Eric, 1956-2010.
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Lang, Robert J. (Robert James), 1961-
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Jackson, Paul, 1956-
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Palmer, Chris K.
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Floderer, Vincent.
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Golan, Miri.
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Hull, Thomas, 1969-
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Demaine, Erik D., 1981-
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Chan, Brian.
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Kamiya, Satoshi, 1957-
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Peyton, Bernard.
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Green Fuse Films.
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Thoughts in Grey Circles (Firm)
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Independent Television Service.
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Kinokuniya Shoten.
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PBS Distribution (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Finding inspiration in unexpected places |
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Science of art, the art of science |
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Between the folds : The science of art. the art of science |
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Independent lens (Television program)
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Origametria.
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| ISBN |
9781608831265 |
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1608831264 |
| Standard No. |
841887011297 |
| Music No. |
INL61108 PBS |
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