Between the folds : a film about finding inspiration in unexpected places / Green Fuse Films presents ; a documentary by Vanessa Gould ; written, directed & produced by Vanessa Gould ; produced in association with Thoughts in Grey Circles, ITVS, Kinokuniya Shoten ; a Green Fuse Films production.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Gould, Vanessa, screenwriter, director, producer.

Rosenthal, Sally, producer.

LaFosse, Michael G., interviewee (expression).

Alexander, Richard L., 1953- interviewee (expression).

Joisel, Eric, 1956-2010, interviewee (expression).

Lang, Robert J. (Robert James), 1961- interviewee (expression).

Jackson, Paul, 1956- interviewee (expression).

Palmer, Chris K., interviewee (expression).

Floderer, Vincent, interviewee (expression).

Golan, Miri, interviewee (expression).

Hull, Thomas, 1969- interviewee (expression).

Demaine, Erik D., 1981- interviewee (expression).

Chan, Brian, interviewee (expression).

Kamiya, Satoshi, 1957- interviewee (expression).

Peyton, Bernard, interviewee (expression).

Talmi, Gil, 1968- composer (expression).

Green Fuse Films, film production company.

Thoughts in Grey Circles (Firm), film production company.

Independent Television Service, film production company.

Kinokuniya Shoten, film production company.

PBS Distribution (Firm), publisher.

Standardized Title:

Independent lens (Television program). Between the folds : a film about finding inspiration in unexpected places.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Origami.

Paper work.

Paper sculpture.

Career changes.

Artists--France--Interviews.

Artists.

Biologists.

Mathematicians.

Scientists.

France.

United States.

Japan.

Israel.

Artists--Israel--Interviews.

Artists--Japan--Interviews.

Artists--United States--Interviews.

Scientists--United States--Interviews.

Mathematicians--United States--Interviews.

Biologists--United States--Interviews.

Art in education.

Art and science.

Science in art.

Mathematics in art.

Genre:

Interviews.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Documentary television programs.

Video recordings for hard of hearing people.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Distribution:

Arlington, VA : PBS Distribution, [2009]

Other Title:

Finding inspiration in unexpected places

Science of art, the art of science

Place of Publication:

[Brooklyn, NY] : Green Fuse Films, [2009]

Language Note:

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

System Details:

DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio) presentation; stereo.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video

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.

Participant:

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.

Notes:

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

Contains:

Origametria.

ISBN:

9781608831265

1608831264

OCLC:

489121635

Publisher Number:

841887011297

INL61108 PBS