During the interminable seven months that The Belcourt was closed for renovation, film fans latched onto every weirdo screening that they could find — including the venerable arthouse’s pop-up screenings at other venues like OZ Arts, Third Man Records and, yes, in a tent at Vanderbilt’s Dyer Observatory. Though high winds threatened to blow the outdoor screening off the hill, sold-out crowds turned up to Science on Screen showings of Our Heavenly Bodies, a 1925 German science-fiction film that explores what we knew about space at the time (and beyond). Accompanied by a haunting live score by experimental noise trio Coupler and the chance to scope out Jupiter from a high-powered telescope, Our Heavenly Bodies managed to bring its audience into the stratosphere. LANCE CONZETT
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Science on Screen: Our Heavenly Bodies at Vanderbilt’s Dyer Observatory
