Science on Screen Presents: Shelf Life

Feb

2025

7:00 pm

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Featured Speaker(s): Ian Cheney

Cost: $13.50 (Discounts available with UT ID and for educators!)

The Austin Film Society will host a special ticketed screening of “Shelf Life,” a global exploration of cheesemaking in unexpected places that draws surprising parallels between the aging of cheese and the human experience.

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Might spending time among people who age cheese yield insights about what it is like for us humans to grow old? Enjoy a sensory and philosophical journey into time, decay and craftsmanship and an evening of film and science at this special event.

Watch a film that is a worldwide “Mondo Cheese” with the world’s many cheese-making and cheese-enjoying traditions as the subject matter. For this very special Science On Screen® and Texas Science Festival event, the film “Shelf Life” with director Ian Cheney will be screened, and a panel of experts will discuss the many scientific aspects of this much-appreciated culinary discipline.

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Director Ian Cheney is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker. His 11 feature documentaries include Picture a Scientist (2020), Bluespace (2015) and The Arc of Oblivion (2023).

Science on Screen Presents: Shelf Life

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Science on Screen® at the Austin Film Society is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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