G R AV I T Y F I E L D S F E S T I VA L
TH UR SDAY
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7pm
The Goldberg
Variations
Douglas Hollick
Harlaxton Manor
Tickets: £10, £7 Concessions
Duration: 2hrs 30mins
Talk and recital of Johann Sebastian
Bach’s acclaimed Goldberg Variations by
internationally acclaimed harpsichordist
Douglas Hollick.
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6.30pm
Diableries:
Stereoscopic
Adventures in Hell
Reflections:
Sir Isaac Newton proposed a seven-part
spectrum of light and this had a great
influence on the discussions of the time.
Grantham Guildhall
Tickets: £4
Duration: 1hr
Reflections:
Newton’s experiments in bending light
through prisms led, eventually, to the
revolutionary discovery of the existence in
white light of a mixture of distinct coloured
rays, distinguishable when refracted in a
prism.
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7:45pm
Gravity: Special
Effects In Space
Stuart Penn, Framestore
Grantham Guildhall
Ticket: £4
Duration: 1hr
How do you film a sequence replicating
a medical engineer and an astronaut
as they work together to survive after a
catastrophe destroys their space shuttle?
Denis Pellerin
A stereoscopic journey through sets of
19th century 3D photographs representing
table to models meant to illustrate life in
Hell (or in other words 19th century Paris).
Denis Pellerin.
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7:30pm
One Giant Leap
Stamford Arts Centre
Tickets: £10; £7 concessions
Duration: 1hr 10mins
See Wednesday on pg 12 for more
information.
Cinema goers were enthralled at Sandra
Bullock and George Clooney adrift in
space, but how was it shot to such good
effect that director Alfonso Cuaron’s movie
scooped seven Oscars – one for special
effects?
Reflections:
One of the biggest challenges in making
Gravity was to make people believe that
the actors were in orbit – a microgravity
environment, while having to film the
actors under the influence of gravity.
See special 3D Gravity film showing at
the Reel Cinema 9pm same evening