the Lunar Society
Lunar Society
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The Lunar Society is a project dedicated to exploring the intersections of film, art, and science.
Imagine a group of scientists and artists traveling by the light of a full moon. Their carriages lunge along the uneven and rocky roads towards Birmingham, 100 miles northwest of London. Mud from the recent rain storm in the northern regions of England clings to their carriage wheels, making the ride even more precarious.
The passengers include some of the leading thinkers, inventors, and scientists of the 18th century.The five men were Erasmus Darwin, Matthew Boulton, James Watt, John Priestly and Josiah Wedgewood. They called their club The Lunar Society.
The Society, which lasted from 1765 to 1830, had no formal structure and no official members. It was a space, similar to a supper club, for sharing discoveries from a range of sciences and the arts. Their curiosities were infused with a desire to improve society through the principles of the Enlightenment. They were the shakers and makers of their time.
Inspired by these ideas, we have founded a modern-day Lunar Society based in Austin, Texas, with informal associations elsewhere. Our modern Lunar Society grows out of our intense curiosity about our world and the sense of inquiry and wonder as we, too, strive to build a future that draws upon science to integrate a similar interdisciplinary and nonconformist attitude.
Our team comes from the filmmaking and experience design worlds. We discover and tell stories through a visual medium, and now we’re exploring ways filmmakers can combine films with other forms of storytelling to encourage curiosity, surprise, discovery, delight and play.
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Guatemala
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