Movie Afternoon: A Brief History of Time

Event time: 
Friday, October 23, 2020 - 4:00pm
Event description: 
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Movie Afternoon: A Brief History of Time

Zoom Link

https://yale.zoom.us/j/94840019412

Movie Link

https://yale.kanopy.com/video/brief-history-time

Synopsis

Errol Morris turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris’s documentary examines the way the collapse of Hawking’s body has been accompanied by the untrammeled broadening of his imagination.

Telling the man’s incredible story through the voices of his colleagues and loved ones, while making dynamically accessible some of the theories in Hawking’s best-selling book of the same name, A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME is at once as small as a single life and as big as the ever-expanding universe.

Took home the Grand Jury Prize and Filmmaker’s Trophy for Documentary at 1992’s Sundance Film Festival.