Film Festival Invades University

The Edinburgh International Film Festival will bring psychotic robots, brain scanners and zombies to the University. Now in its 65th year, the film festival and the University have joined forces to give classic films new life, as well as providing the festival with a new home. Kicking off on June 15, scientists and academics from Edinburgh Neuroscience will use films such as The Terminator, 28 Days Later and Memento to explore the latest discoveries around artificial intelligence, pandemics, and amnesia and ask, could they actually happen? - Reel Science. Elsewhere in the 12 day festival, at 'Oi! Get Your Grubby Hands Out Of My Brain' Professor of Psychiatry Stephen Lawrie, will use films to explore the commercial and ethical issues around neuro-imaging. Dr Katie Overy from the Institute for Music in Human and Social Development will look at how music affects our perception of film. She will curate the event 'Improvising Live Music for Film' which includes a live musical performance to animations by the pioneering Scottish artist Norman McLaren. As a continuation of Edinburgh Neuroscience's schools workshop, local schools will study Harry Potter films for lessons in how chemicals control raging teenage emotions.