One of my films, A Singing Comet, will be screened at Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas (RISC) – 9e édition (Marseille, France) on Sunday 22 November – 14h.
You can check the complete program of the festival on their website.
science
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Anhedonia
In psychology and psychiatry, anhedonia (/ˌænhiˈdoʊniə/ an-hee-doh-nee-ə; Greek: ἀν– an-, “without” and ἡδονή hēdonē, “pleasure”) is defined as the inability to experience pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable, e.g. exercise, hobbies, music, sexual activities or social interactions. While earlier definitions of anhedonia emphasized pleasurable experience, more recent models have highlighted the need to consider different aspects of enjoyable behavior, such as motivation or desire to engage in an activity (“motivational anhedonia”), as compared to the level of enjoyment of the activity itself (“consummatory anhedonia”).
Every disease is a musical problem
“Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.”
Novalis (I don’t know the origin of the quote, I’ve read it in Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks).
Londonitis
“The medical writer Edwin Ash suggested that the industrial age and its background noise had created a new disease. He called it ‘Londonitis.'”
Megan Garber, “Sonic Boom: How digital technology is transforming our relationship with sound.”
Seconds (1966)
When a film starts like this, it must be good (Saul Bass, of course). A paranoia, a dystopian history about who we are and who we would like to be. And, like all good science fiction films, with a lot of reflections between the lines.