Event

CANCELED: Human Nature

Sat Mar 21: 6.00pm
Mon Mar 23: 3.00pm
Tue Mar 24: 3.00pm
Fri Mar 27: 7.30pm
Sat Mar 28: 4.30pm, 7.30pm
Sun Mar 29: 4.30pm, 7.30pm
Mon Mar 30: 3.30pm
Tue Mar 31: 3.30pm
Wed Apr 01: 7.30pm
Thu Apr 02: 7.30pm

** Post-screening conversation with Semih Tareen, Senior Director of Gene Therapy, Head of Viral Vectors at Sana Biotechnology (and award winning composer!) for ByDesign on March 21! **

A breakthrough called CRISPR has given us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. Human Nature is a provocative exploration of CRISPRs far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families its affecting, and the bioengineers who are testing its limits. How will this new power change our relationship with nature? What will it mean for human evolution? To begin to answer these questions we must look back billions of years and peer into an uncertain future.

Description and all images on this page courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment.

Cast: Jennifer Doudna, George Church, Alta Charo

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NOTE: MARCH 21 SCREENING IS PRESENTED AS A PART OF BYDESIGN FESTIVAL: bit.ly/bydesign2020

ByDesign Festival is a cross-cultural exploration of people, structures, and ideas at the intersection of design and the moving image.

In its 20th year, ByDesign recontextualizes the global to the local and examines pressing issues such as sustainability, affordability, indigeneity, and infrastructure, as they relate to design thinking.

Featuring a broad, inclusive selection of films, performances, and interactive activities, ByDesign invites festivalgoers to interrogate their own relationships to personal and collective identity and to examine how humanitys understanding of itself is central to the ways in which it creates the physical world.