Cinema Slapdown Round 22 featuring Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey February 11, 2010

Columbia College Chicago’s Film & Video Department presents Cinema Slapdown’s Round 22. The spring Cinema Slapdown series’ theme is THE GOOD (a semester of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly) and is co-presented with Critical Encounters*: Fact & Faith.

Is 2001: A Space Odyssey a brilliant dissertation about our dystopian future or an incomprehensible exhortation from a dyspeptic filmmaker? Is Man the missing link between the ape and the cosmos or just a monkey in the middle of an interstellar highway? Is the disaster of the Discovery mission the result of artificial intelligence gone awry? Can the same be said of the screenplay? Will our species survive or just go to HAL?

Join us for our debate of galactic proportions as we take on Stanley Kubrick’s epic vision of Man’s place in the universe featuring:
•Dr. Stephen Asma- author of “On Monsters” and philosophy professor (“worth going ape over!”) versus
•Julian Grant- Film and Video Department assistant professor and filmmaker (“a monolithic mouse!”).
•Ron Falzone- the official referee of the slapdown, Film & Video associate professor and host of Talk Cinema.

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