Seattle Movies

SEATTLE PREMIERE OF FILM ABOUT PAPER FOLDINGAT THE INTERSECTION OF ART, MATHEMATICS, AND SCIENCEGet your fold on. On Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 3:30 PM Community Cinema Seattle presents the free Seattle premiere of BETWEEN THE FOLDS directed, written and produced by Vanessa Gould at SIFF Cinema. When you look at a piece of paper, what do you see? Blurring the mysterious lines between art, science, sculpture and math, the film is an exhilarating adventure into origami - or paperfolding - featuring works of art whose emotional expressiveness and engineering complexity defy logic. Just as Michelangelo might have seen a statue standing frozen inside a block of marble, the eccentric artists and scientists in BETWEEN THE FOLDS envision the three-dimensional possibilities of paper, and, as if by alchemy, change the mundane into the poetic and magical — all with no scissors, no tape and no glue. Ultimately, the medium of paperfolding itself — a blank, uncut square — emerges as a resound...