When you look at a piece of paper, what do you see? If your answer is a flat, two-dimensional square, then “Between the Folds,” the next film in the Community Cinema series, will astound you.

The movie is showing in Fruita at Dinosaur Journey Museum, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18.

Blurring the mysterious lines between art, science, sculpture, and math, the film is an exhilarating adventure into origami, or paper folding, featuring works of art whose emotional expressiveness and engineering complexity defy logic.

Just as Michelangelo might have seen a statue standing frozen inside a block of marble, the eccentric artists and scientists in “Between the Folds” envision the three-dimensional possibilities of paper, and, as if by alchemy, change the mundane into the poetic and magical-all without scissors, tape or no glue.

Directed, written, and produced by Vanessa Gould, “Between the Folds” will premiere on television on Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 10 p.m. (check local listings) on the PBS series Independent Lens.

“Between the Folds” chronicles 10 people whose lives have been transformed by paper folding. From artists to physicists to educators, many have abandoned careers and hard-earned graduate degrees — all to forge unconventional lives as modern-day paper folders.

The film opens with three of the world's foremost origami artists-a former sculptor in France folding caricatures rivaling the figures of Daumier and Picasso; a hyperrealist who walked away from a successful physics career to challenge the physics of a folded square instead; and an artisanal papermaker who folds impressionistic creations from the very same medium he makes from scratch.

To learn more about the film and the issues involved with it, visit the companion site for “Between the Folds” at www.pbs.org/between-the-folds. Get detailed information on the film, watch preview clips, read an interview with the filmmaker, and explore the subject in depth with links and resources. The site also features a Talkback section where viewers can share their ideas and opinions.

‘Young@Heart'

December's Community Cinema film will be “Young&Heart” showing at the Mesa County Central Library on Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 6 p.m. Prepare to be surprised, delighted and entertained by the inspiring members of the Young@Heart Chorus, a New England senior citizens chorus that has delighted audiences worldwide with their renditions of songs by everyone from The Clash to Coldplay.

As Stephen Walker's critically acclaimed documentary begins, the retirees, led by their demanding musical director, are rehearsing their new show, struggling with Sonic Youth's dissonant rock anthem “Schizophrenia” and giving new meaning to James Brown's “I Feel Good.” What ultimately emerges is a funny and unexpectedly moving testament to friendship, creative inspiration, and expectations defied.

“Young&Heart” will air nationally on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens during the fall/winter 2009 season.

Penny Mitchell is the development director for Rocky Mountain PBS-KRMJ in Grand Junction.