Dave Davis to Co-Host Film

Dave Davis, professor of English, and Doug Patterson, professor of astronomy, will co-host the film Patema Inverted at 6:30 pm on Thursday, Aug. 29, in the Polsky Theatre.  Patema Inverted, originally released in 2013, is a Japanese animated film set in the distant future when a scientific experiment causes gravity to reverse, resulting in most people and things to start floating away from Earth. Some people remain on Earth by living in tunnels underground.  Because of the lack of gravity, however, they walk on the ceilings of the tunnels.  Patema is a teenage girl who lives in the tunnels with other “Inverts.”   The film focuses on the relationship she develops with Age, a boy living on the surface world who is affected by gravity in the opposite way that Petema is. Patema Inverted is part of JCCC’s 50th anniversary film series.