Thursday, April 24, 2008
5:00 pm
Please join us for special tours, films, entertainment provided by student groups and local performers and refreshments.
All films will begin at 7:30 pm and will held on the Chapel Lawn
In case of inclement weather, screenings will be held indoors in Taylor, room 203
Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection Outdoor Film Series Screening. About the film: Edward Jessup (William Hurt) is a university scientist obsessed with discovering the origin and meaning of life through direct experience, in contrast to his struggles with the mundane nature of daily life. Jessup begins experimenting with sensory-deprivation experiments using a floatation tank, and travels to Mexico to participate in a ceremony using psychotropic mushrooms with resulting bizarre imagery. Jessup combines his experimentation of sensory deprivation with the mushrooms and undergoes a series of transformations, experiencing biological devolution. Declining from a Neanderthal-like humanoid, to a giant amoeba, and finally into a swirling, primordial mass, only to be rescued by his wife and restored to his humanity. Directed by Ken Russell.
Open to the public.