'Proteus' screening & Q&A

Two showings 7pm & 9pm For the 19th century, the world beneath the sea played much the same role that ’outer space’ played for the 20th. The ocean depths were at once the ultimate scientific frontier and what Coleridge called ’the reservoir of the soul’: the place of the unconscious, of imagination and the fantastic. Proteus uses the undersea world as the locus for a meditation on the troubled intersection of scientific and artistic vision. The one-hour film is based almost entirely on the images of nineteenth century painters, graphic artists, photographers and scientific illustrators, photographed from rare materials in European and American collections and brought to life through innovative animation.