On Sunday, June 22, the Arlee will host a red carpet premiere for More Myself than I, a film made by Illinois native & science communicator Jonathan Wood, an Illinois State University alumnus.
Doors open at 5:30, and the movie begins at 6pm, with a Q&A to follow. Admission is by donation, with funds going back to the filmmaker to help offset the costs of making the movie and help fund future projects.
Synopsis: Meet the professors and students of Oakview State University’s Department of Physics, the most brilliant minds that cannot figure out what to do with themselves. Calculating a nitrogen vacancy’s spin orbit coupling is a piece of cake for research assistant Kelly Curtis, but what does she want to do after graduating? Now that’s a tough one. Maybe her advisor, Dr. Will Baily, has the answer, he can write code in Fortran as fluently as you speak English, but don’t ask him how to makes friends out of the office. Maybe she can find an answer from the prickly Dr. Toby O’Connor when he’s not alluding to classical literature in his technical hydrodynamics publications. Is Physics Department Chair Dr. Danile Bartlet really writing a romantic sci-fi western in his free time? Well, every department has its quirks and solving the theory of everything is not all that it’s cracked up to be. Laugh at the neurotic mishaps and cry at the humbling lows of Oakview State’s most brilliant minds, just don’t ask them for any personal advice.
The film was shot on location at Purdue University and stars Jonathan Wood along with fellow ISU alumnus Matt Donley, and real-life physicists Adina Margineatu, Owen Odney, Raymond Glower, Aleksey Mohov, Thomas Slamecka, August Bliese and David Sederberg. Checkout their portrayer of academic life at the public premiere at the Arlee Theater. This event will be open to the general public.
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