Solastalgia

Director:

Institute History

  • 2020 Sundance Film Festival

Description

You are one of five cosmonauts visiting a mysterious future, exploring the surface of a depopulated planet in ruin, colonized by lichens and a strange cloud of data filling the land with human ghosts. What does this curious landscape tell us about our lives? Projecting into the future of the Anthropocene epoch, Solastalgia is a meditation on today’s tensions between the potentially redemptive power of technology and the scientific forecast of a compromised future.

Screens at New Frontier Central

— S.F.

Screening Details

  • Section: New Frontier Exhibitions
  • Film Type: Installations
  • Country: France
  • Language: English and French
  • Run Time: 10 min.
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