![]() His research in scientific visualization and image analysis is aimed at simplifying how scientists gain insights from their scanned imaging data. Recent projects include the Diderot language for parallel computing on tensor fields. Gordon Kindlmann is an assistant professor in the Computation Institute and the Computer Science Department at the University of Chicago. He is the author of nine books on cinema, and the writer-director of the feature documentary, FOR THE LOVE OF MOVIES: THE STORY OF AMERICAN FILM CRITICISM. Gerald Peary is a film studies professor at Suffolk University, film critic for the Boston Phoenix, and programmer of the Boston University Cinematheque. ![]() Robin Schwartz is an Austin-based editor, having cut both AMERICA’S PARKING LOT for director Jonny Mars as well as a season of A&E’s SHIPPING WARS. She is presently editing the forthcoming documentary THE GREAT INVISIBLE from director Margaret Brown. He currently lives in the San Juan Islands in Washington State where he works as a gardener and chocolatier. Though not a trained performer, Myles acted in Bujalski's FUNNY HA HA in the role of Dave. Myles Paige first met Andrew Bujalski at Harvard University, where the two were students together. He currently operates an independent videogame design studio with COMPUTER CHESS co-star James Curry, where the two are creating the forthcoming iPad game THUNDERBEAM. Wiley Wiggins starred in director Richard Linklater's seminal films DAZED AND CONFUSED and WAKING LIFE, as well as Dia Sokol’s SORRY, THANKS. Most recently, he was the assistant editor on the feature film MAN ON A MISSION: RICHARD GARRIOTT’S ROAD TO THE STARS. After attending University of Texas to study film, he began working as an editor of documentaries and commercials for Beef and Pie Productions. Patrick Riester is a lifelong resident of Austin, TX. The Boston Globe describes him as "unerringly polite and somewhat disheveled." Between duties to his own projects, Andrew has also worked as a screenwriter-for-hire and a teacher of film production at Boston University and the University of Texas. Scott as one of the Ten Most Influential Films of the '00s. ![]() We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed of the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it and will come to know it in the future.ĪNDREW BUJALSKI - Writer / Director / EditorĪndrew Bujalski has written and directed the films FUNNY HA HA, MUTUAL APPRECIATION and BEESWAX, all of which have appeared on New York Times critics' "Top Ten of the Year" lists. The pace is slow, and the large cast means many of the characters never move past the big-glasses-and-bad-haircut caricature stage.Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, COMPUTER CHESS transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. Whether that underlying philosophy provides enough food for thought during the movie is another question. They haven’t disappeared or become invisible in the interim, but they’re differently visible, in the way computer screens no longer communicate in green-on-black pixels. But here are two groups – computer nerds and new-age therapists – that are very much of their time, and yet both have shaped the world we inhabit today. There’s a thesis worth of material sliding around in the screenplay for Computer Chess, although Bujalski is too smart to force it on us. The cast includes a number of film editors and software developers, a novelist and a film studies professor, all making their acting debuts. No one seems to know where to look or how to loosen up. The chess tournament is being filmed for posterity (Gerald Perry plays the stuffy host and moderator), but in the pre-YouTube age, few people were natural on camera. The acting is consistently fantastic, which is to say it’s consistently horrible.
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