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"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie

posted by Fnord666 on Monday June 19 2017, @03:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the brighter-future dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

I think we can use some positive emotions in our lives and this 3:50-minute SF movie created by Erik Wernquist certainly delivers a positive view of our future in this solar system that seems to rather lack in stories coming out of Hollywood recently. Made my day again, same as movie shot by Juno probe at Jupiter. This really is a masterpiece and it must have taken tremendous amount of CGI work. Narration is by Carl Sagan reading the first chapter ("The Wanderers") from his 1994 book "The Pale Blue Dot." I wanted to describe the locations displayed in the movie, but it was too spoilery and you can easily guess most of them anyway.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3c1QZzRK4

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/108650530

Erik has a website with more films at http://www.erikwernquist.com/

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  • (Score: 2) by unauthorized on Monday June 19 2017, @09:28PM

    by unauthorized (3776) on Monday June 19 2017, @09:28PM (#528162)

    You can grow food with seawater or closed loop hydrophobic farms. Not enough for billions, but certainly enough to have a functional society after the majority dies off.

    Virtually everything post-apocalyptic is virtually obsessed with the notion of anarchy, and the reason for that is more to provide a vehicle for power fantasies than a realistic assessment of what a collapse of the current social order would like even 2 or 3 years out, much less 20.

    That's not true, one of the more common post-apocalyptic theme is the emergence of a dystopian society after the collapse. In my very biased personal view, I find such settings to be far more common than Mad Max knockoffs.

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