Einstein on the Big Screen
2 and 3 April 2005 saw Einstein get animated with Einstein on the Big Screen - a celebratory film weekend exploring both Einstein's and science's screen images
A
highlight of the weekend held at Watershed in Bristol was a programme
of short animated films created by third-year students from the
University of the West of England (UWE). This was a chance to
experience on the big screen the students' response to the work of
Einstein. There were interpretations of Brownian motion and relativity,
but the appeal was in their unique presentation. You can see two of the
animations made for Einstein on the Big Screen animated and directed by
Lucy Baker here.Also showing was 'Riddles of the Dead: The Secret of Einstein's Brain', directed and produced by physicist Dr Jim Al-Khalili and Neurophysiologist Dr Mark Lythgoe, and 'The Story of the Man by his Friends' which gave the audience a rare opportunity to see early footage about Einstein.
The event was co-organised by Watershed Media Centre and the Institute of Physics for Einstein Year.
