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The Living Force
Yes, it sounds like a nasty movie. It's not!
This is a PBS documentary film about the art and science of Origami Paper Folding. Its very well done and just amazing. Hubby and I had our jaws dropped a couple of times.
He's done origami a lot when he was growing up. I never have, but always loved watching it being done. Its just amazing to me to see someone take a sheet of paper and create something three dimensional with it.
It really is a sublime, encompassing art form.
A sneak peek at it can be seen here: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/between-the-folds/
Very few movies bring us joy as a couple, and inspire each of us to try to look at the world differently. This one fills that bill beautifully. :D
Here's a blurb that 'splains it better:
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.
BETWEEN THE FOLDS chronicles 10 of their stories. Featuring interviews with and insights into the practice of these intrepid paper folders, the film opens with three of the world's foremost origami artists: a former
sculptor in France who folds caricatures in paper rivaling the figures of Daumier and Picasso; a hyper-realist who walked away from a successful physics career to challenge the physics of a folded square instead; and an
artisanal papermaker who folds impressionistic creations from the very same medium he makes from scratch.
The film then moves to less conventional artists, exploring concepts of minimalism, deconstruction, process and empiricism. Abstract artists emerge with a greater emphasis on concept, chopping at the fundamental roots
of realism, which have long dominated traditional origami. The film also features 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 unique film shows how closely art and science are intertwined. The medium of paper folding—a simple blank, uncut square
—emerges as a resounding metaphor for the creative potential for transformation in all of us.
This is a PBS documentary film about the art and science of Origami Paper Folding. Its very well done and just amazing. Hubby and I had our jaws dropped a couple of times.
He's done origami a lot when he was growing up. I never have, but always loved watching it being done. Its just amazing to me to see someone take a sheet of paper and create something three dimensional with it.
It really is a sublime, encompassing art form.
A sneak peek at it can be seen here: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/between-the-folds/
Very few movies bring us joy as a couple, and inspire each of us to try to look at the world differently. This one fills that bill beautifully. :D
Here's a blurb that 'splains it better:
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.
BETWEEN THE FOLDS chronicles 10 of their stories. Featuring interviews with and insights into the practice of these intrepid paper folders, the film opens with three of the world's foremost origami artists: a former
sculptor in France who folds caricatures in paper rivaling the figures of Daumier and Picasso; a hyper-realist who walked away from a successful physics career to challenge the physics of a folded square instead; and an
artisanal papermaker who folds impressionistic creations from the very same medium he makes from scratch.
The film then moves to less conventional artists, exploring concepts of minimalism, deconstruction, process and empiricism. Abstract artists emerge with a greater emphasis on concept, chopping at the fundamental roots
of realism, which have long dominated traditional origami. The film also features 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 unique film shows how closely art and science are intertwined. The medium of paper folding—a simple blank, uncut square
—emerges as a resounding metaphor for the creative potential for transformation in all of us.
I used to make them a lot when I was younger than kind of fell out of making them, but never lost my interest in them. So this film is a must see for me! :P
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thanks for the laugh, I really needed it.
