🎬 🧪 Science. Art. Film.: Arrival (2016)

Name: 🎬 🧪 Science. Art. Film.: Arrival (2016)
Start: 2025-11-19T08:00:00+11:00
Location: Mccoy Cct , Canberra, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2601

Schedule

Wed, 19 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 am

UTC+11:00

Location

Mccoy Cct , Canberra, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2601 | Canberra, CT

When aliens arrive in 12 locations worldwide, humanity scrambles to determine if they pose a threat. The US Military calls in linguistics expert Dr Louise Banks (Amy Adams)to find a way to translate.
The film is based on Ted Chiang’s taut short story and asks audiences to consider what being human means.
Join us after the film for a vibrant discussion with a real-life linguist and film music composer. Find out more about the potentially surprising links between aliens and comedy in this film - and beyond!
‘Muted, measured and meditative, Arrival brings taste and restraint to a genre in the midst of a mini golden age: It comes in peace.’ – Washington Post
Presented as part of our Science. Art. Film. series in partnership with the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, ANU.
Panellists:
Dr Ksenia Gnevsheva is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the ANU. Her main research interest lies at the intersection of sociophonetics and second language acquisition, with a focus on the role of accent in speech production and speech perception. Her studies investigate how people from different backgrounds speak differently, how the same person speaks differently depending on context, and how accented speech is perceived, including its social implications such as linguistic discrimination.
Professor Kenneth Lampl received his Doctor of Musical Arts in music composition from the Juilliard School of Music and was a student of John Williams, acclaimed American composer and conductor best known for his iconic film scores, including Star Wars, Jaws, Indiana Jones, E.T., and Harry Potter. As a composer of film music, Prof. Lampl has scored over 100 films including: Pokémon: The First Movie: Mew vs Mew Two, Pokémon Mewtwo Returns, Frontera (starring Ed Harris and Eva Longoria), and 35 & Ticking (starring Kevin Hart and Nicole Ari-Parker). His recent Australian scores include: the Furies, 2067 and Sissy. The 2067 film soundtrack was released by Sony/Milan Records and was also listed as ‘one of the Best Scores of 2021’ by the Film Music Institute, Los Angeles. Lampl is currently the convenor of the Composition for Film and Video Game program at the Australian National University School of Music.

Moderator:
Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens is a Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, ANU and the Head of POPSICULE, ANU’s Science in Popular Culture and Entertainment Hub. Dr Jürgens’ research explores cultural meanings of science, the history of (violent) clowns and mad scientists, science and humour, and the interface between science and (public) art.