![]() At 20 tera-electron volts (TeV, or trillion electron volts) per proton-close to the regime of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays-it was to have 20 times the collision energy of any existing or planned machine it would have had five times the energy of even today’s LHC collisions. ![]() Department of Energy (DoE) led to conflicts, seemingly endless audits and an overall lack of trust.Īn accelerator that would collide high-energy protons, the SSC’s ring was to be 87.1 kilometers in circumference, circling the small town of Waxahachie, Tex., 48 kilometers south of Dallas. The project’s scale was 20 times bigger than anything physicists had ever managed before, and cultural differences between the scientific side of the accelerator’s management and the military-industrial culture imposed by the U.S. The inability to secure any foreign sources of funding was pivotal, especially as the project’s cost increased by a factor of three from initial estimates amid a national recession and political insistence on controlling government spending. physics since the spotlight moved to Europe?Īlthough no one reason explains the cancellation, a few key aspects of the project stand out. What went wrong with the SSC, in a nation then usually admired for its can-do attitude? What lessons were learned to apply to future efforts? And what has been the impact on U.S. Last year the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, discovered the Higgs, the biggest event in physics in a generation, and, adding insult to injury, announced it on a U.S. Since then, the glory of particle physics has moved to Europe. Twenty years ago, on October 21, 1993, Congress officially killed the project, leaving behind more than vacant tunnel in the Texas earth. Except the story didn’t play out according to script. to retain dominance in high-energy physics. The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) that would have graced the rolling prairies of Texas would have boasted energy 20 times larger than any accelerator ever constructed and might have been revealing whatever surprises that lay beyond the Higgs, allowing the U.S. Peter Higgs, in fact, might have collected his physics Nobel a few years earlier. high-energy physics project would have already found the Higgs particle, having solidly won the competition with its European competitor. Potter mused, “I am thankful to Bleecker Street for taking short films seriously and am thrilled that they will be bringing ‘Look at Me’ to audiences in cinemas and online at a time when its themes feel so urgent.”īankside Films, based in the U.K., will handle international sales on the short film.Ĭheck out the first look at “Look at Me” below.If all had gone according to plan, the gargantuan U.S. The film will also be made available on the Bleecker Street app in early 2023 as part of a collection of shorts by filmmakers Joe Penna, Riley Stearns, Gavin Hood, and Alex Huston-Fischer. after its Venice premiere, with screenings at the Metrograph in New York alongside Potter’s “Orlando” as well as an awards-qualifying run at a Laemmle Theatre in Los Angeles. “Look at Me” will be released by Bleecker Street in the U.S. The premiere of “Look at Me” also marks the 30th anniversary of Potter’s groundbreaking Academy Award-nominated feature “Orlando,” the gender-bending Virginia Woolf adaptation starring Tilda Swinton, in competition at the 1992 Venice Film Festival. The result is ‘Look at Me.'”Ĭhris Rock Compares Will Smith Oscars Slap to Paul Pelosi Attack: He’s the ‘Only Guy Who Knows How I Felt’ It had to become a short film, a fast-moving portrait of conflict and love. “The destiny of the story was clear: it had nothing to do with the other project. “When I got into the cutting room, I saw how dynamic these titans of the entertainment world are together, their volatile, fiery on-screen relationship offset by the rhythms of the brilliant tap dancer Savion Glover,” Potter told Deadline in a statement accompanying the trailer. The short film is produced by Christopher Sheppard. “Look at Me” was filmed in 2019 over the course of five days in London and New York. “Look at Me” premieres Out of Competition at Venice.ĭirector Potter originally conceived the concept of the film as a short story to be featured in her 2020 film “The Roads Not Taken,” starring Bardem as a writer in the early stages of dementia. The 16-minute film stars Rock as a gala organizer who tries to rein in a stubborn drummer ( Javier Bardem) ahead of the on-stage performance. Chris Rock makes a stop at the 2022 Venice Film Festival thanks to Sally Potter’s short film, “ Look at Me.”
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