The films will be screened in original version with subtitles, with a previous presentation and a discussion

The film series has been coordinated by José Ramón Bertomeu, professor of History of Science (University of Valencia) and researcher of the IHMC López Piñero, and Irene Montoro, member of the Cinema Club, with the collaboration of Vicent Ballester García, professor of the Isabel de Villena Secondary Education Centre (Valencia). The film series will deal with the scientific controversy that arises from nuclear power, presenting issues such as the process of creation of the atomic bomb and the civil consequences of its use, or the safety of nuclear power plants and the catastrophes that have taken place over history.

SCREENINGS:

• Creadores de sombras
  

(Fat Man and Little Boy, Roland Joffé, USA, 1989)
Thursday 8th May 2014, at 6 pm

* Before the screening, at 5 pm, it will be presented the opening lecture La energía nuclear: perspectivas históricas (Nuclear power: historical perspectives), by Lino Camprubí (UAB), and the talk Ciencia y guerra: el proyecto Manhattan (Cience and war: Manhattan project), by José Ramón Bertomeu and Vicent Ballester García.

• El juego de la guerra / La jetée

El juego de la guerra (The War Game, Peter Watkins, United Kingdom, 1965) / La jetée (Chris Marker, France, 1962)
Thursday 15th May 2014, at 6 pm

• Silkwood

(Mike Nichols, USA, 1983)
Thursday 22nd May 2014, at 6 pm

• La terre outragée
  

(Michale Boganim, França, 2011)
Thursday 29th May 2014, at 6 pm

* Before the screening, at 5 pm, it will be presented the lecture La catástrofe de Chernobyl, by Alain-Gilles Bastide (French photographer, author of the exhibition Traces Tchernobyl and the book-DVD Tchernobyl forever).