EMERSON COLLEGE HONORS PROGRAM: Recent Theses/Projects

Luis Dechtiar, Emerson Honors Program Alumnus, Class of 2006
Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Media Arts (Film)

Honors Thesis/Project Title:
Paradigm Shift: A Science Fiction Film Series
(Faculty Sponsors: John Gianvito and Rob Todd)

To view Paradigm Shift, please click here:

Paradigm Shift clip (2 minutes)

Paradigm Shift full movie (20 minutes)

Project Description/Abstract:

"Paradigm Shift is a series of four screenplays, the last of which was made into a super-16mm color film, twenty minutes in length.  The content for these science-fiction screenplays is inspired by the two Sophomore Honors Seminar courses:  Evolutionary Theory and Philosophy, as well as other scientific, mathematical, philosophical, and religious research that I have done subsequently.  The film Paradigm Shift: Involution, revolves around two ambitious youths with opposing metaphysical viewpoints on the origins of the universe and the next step in the evolution of the human species."