Hickory's Footcandle Film Society and Tim's Vermeer

The movie for April, 2014, which we saw last night, was “Tim’s Vermeer”   http://youtu.be/CS_HUWs9c8c   It is a hard movie to describe but it apparently amazed everybody who was in the Carolina Theater.  Not at all your ordinary movie.  No, this was a wedding of modern technology, ancient art and a lot of very high level detective work spanning hundreds of years.

After the movie, the Footcandle Film Society always continues with a discussion of the presentation just concluded.  The discussion is led by Alan Jackson and Chris Frye.  This movie generated a lot of comments about the perceived gap between technology and art.  Does this “gap” showing signs of narrowing or does it appear to be widening?  Certainly, this movie indicated a coming reunion – or did it?  Opinions varied considerably about answers to that question,  but there was general agreement about what the movie had depicted and what that meant for the future of both art and science.