Immanence in the Pixel: Traditional Cultural Origins of Math and Technology
An evening of film video and web screenings curated by Laura U. Marks
Presented Saturday, May 11th at 8 pm

Zero: Musings on Nothing
Elida Schogt, Canada, 16mm, 10:00 excerpt from work in progress

Zero is a meditation on a mathematical concept that touches human consciousness in unexpected ways. More than a film about the number that is not, the essential place-holder in our counting system - Zero is a film about life. Tracing zero's birth in western thought, the film jumps back to Babylon, moves through Athens to India, landing in the present-day bustle of the holy mountain city, Varanasi. On a side trip to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, zero is palpable among the Mayan ruins. Schogt uses animation and metaphor to give a sense of the infinity enfolded within the egglike number.

Elida Schogt - Biography

Elida Schogt was born in Princeton, N.J. and is of Dutch descent; she lives in Toronto. She holds an MA in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research in New York. Her experimental documentary films include Silent Song (2001), The Walnut Tree (2000), and the award-winning Zyklon Portrait (1999), a "Holocaust film without Holocaust imagery."

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