It’s not a new release and a last bestseller, but…
This short film was created in 2014. But I wanted to remind this, especially in Russian below. That could be like a deep childish remeniscence about places and items that we had in early age and which had lost during a time. Our mind and eyes prefer look on vastness. That’s why we enjoy to look on a sea horizon or starry night sky. And the further and bigger we can look, than more admiration we will experience.
And another one thing. This isn’t an absolutely fiction, but the digital handling of a REAL landscapes. For example, this martian terrific mountain Cape Verde, shot by 'Oportunity' in 2007, transformed there into the breathtaking panorama of arriving martian space shuttle. The brief text-review by Erik Wernquist is below. I sure, that won’t be the waste of time.
WANDERERS
is a short science fiction film by Erik Wernquist (that´s me) — a digital artist and animator from Stockholm, Sweden.
The film is a vision of our humanity’s future expansion into the Solar System. Although admittedly speculative, the visuals in the film are all based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space might look like, if it ever happens. All the locations depicted in the film are digital recreations of actual places in the Solar System, built from real photos and map data where available. For those interested in learning more of the places featured in the film, I recommend turning to the gallery section.
The title WANDERERS refer partly to the original meaning of the word «planet». In ancient greek, the planets visible in the sky were collectively called «aster planetes» which means «wandering star». It also refers to ourselves; for hundreds of thousands of years — the wanderers of the Earth. In time I hope we take that leap off the ground and permanently become wanderers of the sky. Wanderers among the wanderers.
There is no apparent story — other than what you might imagine for yourself — and the idea is primarily to show a glimpse of the fantastic and beautiful nature that surrounds us on our neighboring worlds — and above all, how it might appear to us if we were there.
As some may notice I have borrowed ideas and concepts from science fiction authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Arthur C. Clarke, just to name a few. And visually, I of course owe many tips of my hat to painter Chesley Bonestell — the legendary master of space art.
More directly, with kind permission from Ann Druyan I have also borrowed the voice of astronomer and author Carl Sagan to narrate the film. The audio I used are excerpts from his own reading of his book 'Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space' (1994, Random House) — needless to say, a huge inspiration for this film.
