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Tom Hull
Tom Hull created this origami structure, called "5 Tetrahedra"
BRATTLEBORO— The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC), in partnership with Vermont Public Television and Brattleboro Community Television, presents a free screening of “Between the Folds” (2008), a highly acclaimed documentary film that explores the science, art, creativity, and ingenuity of many of the world’s best paper folders.
The screening takes place at BMAC on Thursday, Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m.
After the screening, audience members are invited to take part in a paper folding event led by sculptors James Florschutz and Mariel Pitti.
Mathematician Tom Hull, one of the paper folders featured in the film, will be on hand to display some of his intricate paper models of mathematical and scientific concepts.
“Between the Folds” is being shown as part of BMAC’s new Community Cinema program, which features documentary films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens.
Every month—September through May—BMAC hosts a free public screening of a cutting-edge documentary film soon to be aired on PBS.
Organized in collaboration with Vermont Public Television and Brattleboro Community Television, screenings are accompanied by community-based discussions and events that bring together citizens, organizations, and public television stations in dialogue and action around important social issues.
An official selection of more than 25 film festivals worldwide, “Between the Folds” chronicles the stories of 10 fine artists and intrepid theoretical scientists who have abandoned careers and scoffed at hard-earned graduate degrees—all to forge unconventional lives as modern-day paper folders.
As they converge on the unlikely medium of origami, these artists and scientists reinterpret the world in paper and bring forth a bold mix of sensibilities towards art, expressiveness, creativity, and meaning.
Together these offbeat and provocative minds demonstrate the innumerable ways that art and science come to bear as we struggle to understand and honor the world around us—as artists, scientists, creators, collaborators, preservers, and simply curious beings.
• Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
• Independent Lens/Community Cinema program
Roberto Gretter
'Cerchio arcobaleno (rainbow circle),' a torus built by Roberto Gretter, using 555 of Tom Hull's pentagon-hexagon zig-zag units
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