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San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

March 12 - June 19, 2011

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560 South First Street San Jose, CA 95113
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A documentary short film by renowned American designers Ray and Charles Eames This 1968 documentary short film (re-released in 1977) depicts the relative scale of the universe in factors of ten. Starting at a picnic scene in a city park, the film transports the viewer to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds the starting point is viewed from ten times farther out until the galaxy is visible only as a speck of light. Returning to earth, the scene rewinds quickly to zero in on the hand of a sleeping picnicker. The journey ends with a magnified view of a molecule.