Opening Night

During the opening of the eight edition not only InScience will start to experiment, but the audience will join in too. Avant-garde filmmakers usually try to reinvent the form and language of cinema. For inspiration, they frequently look at that other domain that specializes in experimentation: science. That’s why it is so fitting that InScience opens with a showcase of the meeting of both these fields.

In four short films, selected in collaboration with EYE Filmmuseum, we get an overview in how the experimental science film – or is that the scientific film experiment? – has developed over the years. The program starts with a classic from the 1930’s and ends with a student project from 2023. In between we also check in with Dutch grandmaster Joost Rekveld and the German Robert Seidel. Along the way you’ll see and feel plants, math and artificial intelligence as if for the first time. It isn’t just film we present, as there is also space for music by local talent Mart Boumans, who will provide a new live score for one of the films.

Before the four films there’ll be a welcome speech by InScience director Daisy van de Zande and Hubert Bruls, Mayor of Nijmegen. After the four films there will be a Q&A with some of the filmmakers. At the end you are all welcome for drinks, the first one of which is on the house.

Warning: One of the films contains strong flashes of light and can be a hazard for people suffering of photosensitive epilepsy. The specific title will be announced beforehand.