🎬 🧪 Science. Art. Film.: Paprika (2006)

Name: 🎬 🧪 Science. Art. Film.: Paprika (2006)
Start: 2025-09-23T08:00:00+10:00
Location: Mccoy Cct , Canberra, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2601

Schedule

Tue, 23 Sep, 2025 at 08:00 am

UTC+10:00

Location

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

Dreams begin to merge with the waking world when ‘sleep terrorists’ acquire technology that can control human minds. Dr Atsuko Chiba must enter the dreamscape to restore the boundary between imagination and reality.
Director Satoshi Kon’s psychedelic animation bends reality as it dives into questions of the collective unconscious.
Join us for a post-screening discussion about (researching) comics, consciousness and animated futures.
‘In the world of Japanese animation, which generally welcomes experimental weirdness, Kon is renowned for being particularly weird and experimental.’ – The Guardian
Presented as part of our Science. Art. Film. series in partnership with the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, ANU.
Panellist:
Dr Chitra V is an anthropologist and visual artist based at the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University. Her research intersects environmental studies, science and technology studies, and the visual arts. She is the author of Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore (Cornell University Press, 2024), a book that combines comics and text to illustrate how science, planning, and image-making intersect to shape environmental futures.
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.
Images: Paprika © 2006 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.