Scholar session: "Gravity" with Sara Ortega

Cinema and Science Series

Invited Scientists

Sara Ortega Martinez
DIPC

When

2025/03/19
09:30

Place

Bizkaia Aretoa (UPV/EHU), Bilbao

Organizers

DIPC, Basque Film Archive, Donostia international Film Festival

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With the aim of transmitting cinematographic and scientific culture, the Basque Film Library, the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and the San Sebastian International Film Festival (SSIFF) are organizing the eighth edition of the Cinema and Science Cycle. As every year, as part of the series, there will be sessions aimed at schools in Donostia/San Sebastian, Bilbao and Vitoria-Gasteiz. The purpose of this activity is to bring current scientific topics closer to the new generations by showing films presented by invited scientists. The space adventure GRAVITY, directed by Alfonso Cuarón in 2013, will be the starting point for this year's scientific debate.

During repairs to the Hubble telescope, a shower of space debris hits their spacecraft, leaving the two main characters in ‘Gravity’ alone and uncommunicated. But what is the Hubble Telescope? What does it observe? And why have we launched it into space, orbiting thousands of kilometres above the Earth, when it would be much more comfortable to make observations from Earth? Throughout this session, we will talk about what the Hubble Telescope has shown us about the Universe, about the future of astrophysical and cosmological observations, and about the risks of space debris.

To discuss this topic, we will be joined by scientists from the COSMOS area of the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC). There they work to answer the basic questions about the origin, composition, structure and evolution of the universe at the forefront of scientific research.

The film will be broadcast in the original version in English with subtitles in Spanish. The presentation will be in Spanish. Registration is required to participate in the school sessions.