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Independent Lens: Between the Folds

	Our Price: $21.99 List Price: $24.99 Your Save: $ 3.00 ( 12% ) Sales Rank: #6767 (lower is better) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: PBS (DIRECT) Starring: Dr. Erik Demaine, Giang Dinh, Vincent Floderer & Le Crimp, Miri Golan, Dr. Tom Hull Directed By: Vanessa Gould Avg. Customer Rating:
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Brand: PBS EAN: 0841887011297 Format: Color Manufacturer: PBS (DIRECT) Release Date: 2010-01-05
Independent Lens: Between the Folds Description A fascinating documentary about the science and art of origami, BETWEEN THE FOLDS profiles brilliant artists, mathematicians and scientists who are reinventing the ancient Japanese tradition of paper folding. With just one piece of paper, and without the use of glue, tape or staples, these offbeat and provocative minds are creating unimaginably beautiful works of art and thought-provoking mathematical models.
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Independent Lens: Between the Folds customer reviews: DVD- Between the Folds as seen on PBS This documentary about origami is absolutely fascinating and mind stretching! I recommend it to anyone who has even a passing interest in the art! A fascination to inspire visionaries This video is certainly an inspiration that extends past the limits of paper. The documentary shares the best minds and views associated with origami but certainly leaves a fascination to make choices to doing more, change the existing, and motivate the mediocre. When pape is more than paper. When most of us think of origami we think of what? Usually it's the "cutey catcher" from grade school or the "crane". Between the Folds takes one to a new dimension in exploring origami and its use of paper in the 21st century. From its use in grade schools in Israel as a venue to teach geometry, to a successful physcist who retired early to pursue a career full time in origami, to the whimsical work of a french man named Joisel, this film leads one down the proverbial rabbit hole of Alice and explodes into a world that most of us never could imagine in our wildest dreams. It is well worth the price or if your on a budget or uncertain, catch it on your local PBS and then buy it. Wonderful, Brilliant, Inspiring... The POWER OF THE FOLD Much more than I could have ever imagined, Between the Folds chronicles the stories of ten fine artists and theoretical scientists who have abandoned careers and scoffed at hard-earned graduate degrees--all to forge unconventional lives as modern-day paperfolders." The simplicity of origami is that it allows everyone the opportunity to create their own interpretation of the world we all share -- through paper. An art form that is not only revolutionizing contemporary art as newer generations of practitioners redefine and exceed traditional perimeters. Mathematicians like Erik Demaine, associate professor of MIT, are also using computer based models of origami to study how to save lives... By trade, I am a mixed media papermaker. Director Vanessa Gould says: "At its heart, Between the Folds is a film about potential. The potential of an uncut paper square. The potential of a wild scientific idea. The potential to see things differently..." ...And that's exactly how I came away from the viewing. ...Feeling like the only limits on my art are the ones I place there myself. Between the Folds has won several awards and is being called "Filmmaking at its most wondrous. ... breathtaking." . . . "A riveting feast for the eye and mind" . . . "Mesmerizingly beautiful" . . . "Exhilarating" . . . I think it would be a great edition to any collection. Especially for teachers of art or math. I also found it interesting that besides being the director, Vanessa Gould is also a pianist and artist. The ability to cross disciplines gave her great sensitivity in filming the project. Beautiful imagery as well. Here is a link to BTF official website: Between The Fold Website: [...] wonderful overview I have been folding for about 6 years and enjoy engaging others in this activity. I had seen some snippets of the video but was pleasantly surprised when I got to watch the whole thing. I purchased the edition (from PBS) which allows for public performance and displayed it during the lunch period of a county schools' science teachers workshop. Everyone who stayed really liked it. The DVD presents the wide range of possibilities which origami provides: an art form which may extend to creating your own paper, a mathematical/physics challenge which benefits scientific fields like space travel, a mental exercise to develop spatial skills in students, etc. I have led origami folding projects with many people, from making paper doves to decorate a church in Nicaragua for a wedding, to a day's worth of middle school social studies classes using real origami paper to make a three-dimensional figure. I can't wait to use this video as a preface to next year's groups - whoever they are! Catherine Carr DeLand Florida
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