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Prof. Thakur screens film at the New York International Short Film Festival

Th film “Red Tulips, A Story About Forgetting” written and directed by Shanti Thakur will screen at the New York International Short Film Festival, Tuesday, May 28th at 7:30pm. It will screen at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema at 143 E. Houston Street on the Lower East Side.

Red Tulips recently won the Grand Remi Award in Experimental Film at Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival and Best Narrative Film at Columbus International Film Festival. Screenings include: LA Shortsfest, Mill Valley Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival and Athens International Film Festival.
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IMA alumna Heidi Boisvert’s project

[RADICAL] SIGNS OF LIFE
AND bring an expressive virtual world populated by corporeal sounds and generative imagery from dancers’ bodies to a wider audience.

[radical] signs of life is one of the first large-scale uses of biotechnology to integrate networked bodies and interactive dance.

Through responsive dance, [radical] signs of life externalizes the mind’s non-hierarchical distribution of thought. Music is generated from the dancers‘ muscles and blood flow via biophysical sensors that capture sound waves from the performers’ bodies. This data triggers complex neural patterns to be projected onto multiple screens as 3D imagery. As the audience interacts with the images produced, they enter into a dialogue with the dancers.


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