Cinema Noēsis: IONS 2013 Film Event

This is a two-day film festival. You may sign up for either day or receive a discount for attending both days. The Wednesday evening program is open to anyone signed up for either or both days of the film festival.

Note: Film festivals by nature have a certain fluidity to them—especially this far in advance—so the times and even the films or the post-film discussions may change, but we’ll do our best to stick to the original program. —Matthew Gilbert, Festival Director
 

W6 Wednesday, July 17—9:30am - 5:30pm

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9:30 – 11:00am

Escape Fire: The Fight to Save American Healthcare (95 min.)

It’s no secret that the American healthcare system is broken, but the current battle over costs and access does not address the root problem: its overwhelming focus on disease. After decades of struggle, a movement to bring high-touch, low-cost methods of prevention and healing into this “system on the brink” is finally gaining ground. This award-winning film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and has attracted broad media coverage and acclaim.

11:00 – 11:45am

Panel discussion with indie film promotion company 360 Degree Communications
 

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11:45 – 1:00pm

LUNCH

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1:00 – 2:40pm

The Apocalypse According to Doris (100 min.)

The only non-documentary in the festival, this genre bending “psi-fi” original is a well-written, character-driven tale about a rural housewife who involuntarily channels accurate predictions of cataclysmic events and the quirky cast of naysayers and believers she attracts. Premiered at Cannes; Script Finalist at the Sundance Writers Lab; top prize winner at the Akashic Metaphysical Film Festival and the Spirit Quest Film Festival.

2:45 – 3:15pm

Q/A with director Victor Goss and several members of the cast
 

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3:30 – 5:00pm

Kumare: The True Story of a False Prophet (84 min.)

Fed up with self-proclaimed prophets from both East and West who dress in traditional garb and claim to represent the deepest truths of ancient wisdom, Vikram Gandhi decides that he can do better and launches his alter guru-ego, Kumare. It’s a brilliantly executed conceit that ultimately, and unexpectedly, turns Vikram’s world upside down. Winner of Best Documentary at Austin’s renown South by Southwest® (SXSW) festival.

5:00 – 5:30pm

Q/A with Vikram Gandhi or facilitated discussion with Matthew Gilbert
 

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Wednesday Evening Special Session—7 - 9pm

This evening program is open to anyone signed up for either or both days of the film festival.

Death Makes Life Possible trailer

Introduction by Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, and Angela Murphy

Money and Life (85 min.)

This passionate and inspiring film poses a provocative challenge: seeing the economic crisis not as a disaster but as an opportunity to transform our relationship to money and wealth and, in so doing, transform our world. Money and Life invites people to reclaim their lives and their communities from the rule of money and to become joyously active in co-creating a more just and sustainable future. Featuring an extraordinary and diverse line-up of change agents.

8:30 – 9:00pm

Q/A with film participants
 

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T1 Thursday, July 18—9:30am - 4:30pm

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9:30 – 11:00am

"In the Beginning, There Was Light" (95 min.)
(German with subtitles)

The notion of “breatharianism”—people who can live for weeks, months, and even years without food or fluids—lies well outside the biological norm. And yet as this film makes clear, such people do exist, at least according to certified reports of personal experiences and well-documented laboratory studies. If true, the answer to how may lie somewhere in the realms of quantum physics and ancient spiritual traditions.

11:00 – 11:30am

Q/A with director P.A. Straubinger and IONS Senior Scientist Dean Radin, author of the soon-to-be released Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities
 

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11:30 – 1:00pm

LUNCH

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1:00 – 2:30pm

No One Dies in Lily Dale (90 min.)

Lily Dale, NY, is home to the largest concentration of mediums in the world. Thousands of people make the pilgrimage each year to find comfort, closure, and, ultimately, healing, from purported contact with their deceased beloveds. This engrossing film pulls the curtain back on this unusual community of 40 spiritualists and their various approaches to making contact with the other side.

2:30 – 3:00pm

Q/A with IONS Visiting Scholar Arnaud Delorme, part of a research team that has been studying the phenomenon of mediumship
 

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3:00 – 4:00pm

Schooling the World (65 min.)

Does “modern” Western education really make life better when introduced into—and often displacing—indigenous traditions and ways of knowing? This powerful film looks at the impact of such education on one of the world’s last sustainable cultures—the Ladakh in the northern Indian Himalayas—revealing a profound clash of worldviews with ultimately troubling results.

5:00 – 5:30pm

Q/A with Katia Peterson, IONS Executive Director of Education
 

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FESTIVAL ENDS!

The Main Conference begins on Thursday evening. Optional film programs will be offered on Friday and Saturday evenings.
See the Evening Activites section for more info »