On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies

 

JUNE 30, 1908

 

At breakfast time I was sitting by the house at Vanavara Trading Post [65 kilometres/40 miles south of the explosion], facing north...I suddenly saw that directly to the north, over Onkoul's Tunguska Road, the sky split in two and fire appeared high and wide over the forest. 
 

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An Evening With The Shenyang Visual Archive
Monday, July 15th, 2019 - 7:00 P.M.
Tickets $8 General, $5 Students/Seniors

The Velaslavasay Panorama welcomes Hexi and Charles Gravelle from the Shenyang Visual Archive in Shenyang, China to give a talk and present documentary shorts which will bring scenes from our new Shengjing Panorama to life. Hexi, Charles, Yang Shu, and Yang Zhijiang are founders of a group who traverse Shenyang in search of clues to reconstruct what the city looked like nearly 100 years ago. They combine online and archival research with first-hand interviews and on-site examinations of the architectural gems that once comprised the famous city of Mukden, now called Shenyang and the city which Shengjing Panorama is based on.

 

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Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun?
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 - 8:00 P.M.
Tickets $12 General, $6 Students, Free for VPES Members & Filmforum
2017, color, sound, 90 minutes
Director, writer, cinematographer, editor: Travis Wilkerson (in attendance)
**Advanced Tickets Strongly Recommended**

The Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles Filmforum and Acropolis Cinema present Travis Wilkerson's staged performance and screening of "Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun?" A bracing excavation of family history, white supremacy, and the widespread traumas generated by the criminal treatment of African-Americans in America’s past and present, Wilkerson renders an ugly and irredeemable episode from his family’s past into a radical form of poetic activist cinema. One of the leading non-fiction filmmakers today, we welcome Wilkerson for the LA premiere of the film and what may be the last staged performance.

Extraordinary. Travis Wilkerson’s fusion of personal, historical, and investigative filmmaking...is among the best documentaries in recent years.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker

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