Science on Screen at the Coolidge Corner Theatre continues October 29 at 7:00 p.m. with Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s PULSE (KAIRO) and guest speaker Alan Lightman, physicist, novelist, and Adjunct Professor of Humanities at MIT.

Kurosawa’s PULSE (2001) tells the story of a group of young friends rocked by the sudden suicide of one of their own, and his subsequent, ghostly reappearance in grainy computer and video images. Is their friend trying to contact them from beyond the grave, or is there something much more sinister afoot? Soon, there are more strange deaths and disappearances within the group and the appearance of more ghosts as the city of Tokyo—and the world—is slowly drained of life.

Alan Lightman is the author of the international bestseller, Einstein’s Dreams. His latest novel, Ghost tells the story of David, an ordinary man who experiences an extraordinary vision that no science can explain. After the screening, Lightman will be on hand to sign copies of his new book.

Co-presented by Museum of Science, Boston and New Scientist magazine.

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