04 October 2015 | 19:00

Screening: Colors of Math - Ekaterina Eremenko #45

Entrance: €5

Doors: 18:30
Start time: 19:00

 

Screening: Colors of Math
Followed by a Q&A with the director Ekaterina Eremenko and special guest executive producer Prof. Yuri Tschinkel

 

To most people math appears abstract, mysterious, complicated, inaccessible. But math is nothing but a different language to express the world. Math can be sensual. Math can be tasted, it smells, it creates sound and colour. One can touch it – and be touched by it…

 

  • Director, Script, Producer: Ekaterina Eremenko
  • Camera: Pavel Kostomarov
  • Music: Mike Schroeder
  • Editor: Marat Magambetov
  • Executive Producer: Yuri Tschinkel

 

 

“Colors of Math” has been translated into 12 languages, had a successful Russian theatrical release and was shown in many universities, festivals and science conferences, including Pacific Meridian Film Festival, Vladivostok, 2013, Green Film Festival, Seoul, 2013, Imagine Science Film Festival 2012, NYC, November 10, 5pm, 360o Contemporary Scientific Film Festival, 2012, 34th Moscow International Film Festival, June 2012, EDUCA 2012, European Conference of Math Education, Algebraic geometry conference (Durham, UK), Yale USA, NYU USA, TU Berlin, MGU (Russia) and MSRI (Berkeley).

Press
 “This film generated enormous interest even before it was shown. The topic is difficult, the approach highly unusual...”  http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=830922

"Possibly the Best Math Movie You Haven’t Seen" - Science Friday 

"She gave mathematics a form that is understandable to all, from nuclear physicists to people immersed in humanities. “ From: http://www.lookatme.ru/flow/posts/film-radar/172335-matematicheskaya-garmoniya-chuvstv-dokkino-na-mmkf "

"Completely true to its title, this film bypasses the brain and immediately reaches all senses..." - Moskauer Filmfestival 

"Eremenko ist ein Dokumentarfilm gelungen, in dem alle, ob Mathematiker, Laien oder einfach Filmliebende, etwas für sich finden können. Denn am Ende gehen die fünf Schachzüge auf. Und was bleibt, ist ein klares Bild, wie sinnlich und erlebbar Mathematik sein kann." - Moskauer Deutsche Zeitung  

"The film (in Russian, "Chuvstvennaya Matematika") has proven an unlikely hit, packing cinemas all over the country...“ - http://www.themoscownews.com/arts/20130520/191520851.html