WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) — A new short film by Swedish director Erik Wernquist’s, called {i:Wanderers}, is wowing viewers and quickly becoming a darling of space and science fans. The film loosely imagines what it might look like as humans populate the rest of the solar system.
Clocking in at just under four minutes, the film pairs a series of awe-inspiring space images with voice of a famed cosmologist Carl Sagan. The narration is an early audio recording of Sagan’s best-selling book “Pale Blue Dot,” which like the film, envisions the future of humans in space.
{link:Put simply by the filmmaker: “http://www.erikwernquist.com/wanderers/what.html”,nw}: “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.”
The film seems to have had a profound effect on science writers around the web.
“This is one of the most wondrous and moving paeans to space exploration I have ever seen,” Slate’s Phil Plait {link:wrote of the short: “http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/11/29/wanderers_video_of_our_future_in_space_exploration.html”,nw}.
Forget {i:Interstellar}, {link:Gizmodo’s Jesus Diaz claims: “http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-most-amazing-and-inspiring-vision-of-our-future-ive-1664783812/+jesusdiaz”,nw} no other planet-colonizing sci-fi movies “were as inspiring, beautiful, and realistic as this extraordinary short film.”
The film is available to be streamed online. But previous viewers recommend (for full effect) maximizing the screen, turning out the lights, and plugging in some headphones.
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