Spaceship Earth
An involving, oddly poignant tale that should have broad appeal to those on the lookout for distinctive documentary features.
-- Dennis Harvey, Variety
Spaceship Earth
SPACESHIP EARTH is the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2. The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that it was nothing more than a cult. The bizarre story is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers can potentially reimagine a new world.
Genre
Documentary
Web Site
Runtime
115
Language
English
Director
Matt Wolf
FEATURED REVIEW
Dennis Harvey, Variety
The experiment known as Biosphere 2 may be best remembered now — when remembered at all — as something that spawned “Bio-Dome,” the godawful 1996 comedy that is nonetheless many people’s favorite movie involving Pauly Shore or Stephen Baldwin. (Of course, others might get hives at the very idea of ...
Played at
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 5.08.20 - 5.21.20
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