Cielos Americanos: Film screening and discussion

Through intimate perspectives, historians and philosophers of science from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Italy reflect about the meaning of historical celestial images through their own imagination, sensations, longings, identities and affects.

This collective work is also an exploration of the silenced motivations or interrogation in academic work.

The series of eight short films will be presented by Sabrina Almandoz and Christiane Burkhard, the two independent film makers who inspired the cinematic languages and guided the production of the project "American Skies: Celestial Images as Technologies of Cultural Transfer."

The screening will conclude with a conversation with four of the Latin American authors.

Participants: Sabrina Almandoz, Christiane Burkhard, Miruna Achim, Thomas Haddad, Andrés Vélez, Marina Rieznik, Nydia Pineda

Full film abstracts are available on the registration page.

This screening is the concluding event of a week-long series for the project "American Skies: Celestial Images as Technologies of Cultural Transfer" created by Nydia Pineda de Ávila, UC San Diego.

The full American Skies series is supported in part by the Department of History, the Latin American Studies Program, the Science Studies Program, the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts and the School of Arts and Humanities, all located at UC San Diego.