Contagion

(Steven Soderbergh, US/United Arab Emirates 2011, 106 min., 35mm)

Museum Treasures. When was the last time you washed your hands? This star-studded biomedical thriller follows the life cycle of fast-spreading fictional virus MEV-1 from patient zero to pandemic. Praised for its scientific accuracy, Contagion chillingly depicts an outbreak that endangers not only those who are infected, but all members of a global community that struggle to survive a panic-driven collapse of social order, mass hysteria, government corruption, and snake oil “cures.”

Special presentation by Spencer Christiano, Chief Projectionist, Moving Image Department.