Art & Science of Time Travel: Award Winning Sci-Fi

We feature original award-winning short visual stories developed for a Sci-Fi mini-series. In the spirit of Kip Thorne's advisement in "Interstellar," Michele Reilly, lecturer in Quantum Mechanical Engineering, has her MIT students use expertise in black hole physics and quantum information theory to create imaginative worlds. Their storytelling earned the project honors at Cannes and a multitude of other international film awards. Through a faculty grant from the Center for Arts, Science & Technology, Reilly encourages students to unite technical expertise with an artistic vision, crafting creative media that interweaves open questions in science into fictional worlds. The work received international acclaim with its initial award-winning Sci-Fi mini-series called "Steeplechase." From 2016 to 2023, Reilly spearheaded breakthroughs with scientists worldwide in distributed quantum memory networks leading to advances in the technology design.