Between the Folds

MARCH 26, 2011
Long Beach Island Foundation

120 Long Beach Boulevard
Loveladies, NJ 08008
(609) 494-1241

6:30 – Award winning artist Sophia Yuan – Origami presentation
7:00 – Film Between the Folds
- Q and A with director Vanessa Gould
- Light refreshments will be served.
Admission: $5
Free for members of the Lighthouse International Film Festival

“Between the Folds is a gorgeous cinematic experience. I was so captivated by the documentary that halfway through I felt intense admiration for humanity, the same tingling I feel when listening to music so exquisite it’s almost painful.”
— Karen A. Frankel, talkingscience

When you look at a piece of paper, what do you see? If your answer is a flat, two–dimensional square, then BETWEEN THE FOLDS will astound you. Blurring the mysterious lines between art, science, sculpture and math, the film is an exhilarating adventure into origami, or paperfolding, featuring works of art whose emotional expressiveness and engineering complexity defy logic. Just as Michelangelo might have seen a statue standing frozen inside a block of marble, the eccentric artists and scientists in BETWEEN THE FOLDS envision the three–dimensional possibilities of paper, and, as if by alchemy, change the mundane into the poetic and magical—all with no scissors, no tape and no glue. Ultimately, the medium of paperfolding itself—a blank, uncut square—emerges as a resounding metaphor for the creative potential of us all.

The award–winning documentary Between the Folds chronicles the stories of ten fine artists and intrepid theoretical scientists who have abandoned careers and scoffed at hard–earned graduate degrees—all to forge unconventional lives as modern–day paperfolders.

Meet director, writer and producer Vanessa Gould at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences

Paper Sculpture by Chris K. Palmer
Experimenting with Movement and Light