Silent Running
A performance from EMF 2024 by EMF Film
On Sunday June 2, 2024 at – in Stage C
The ultimate solarpunk film? In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet's ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed, most of the crew of the Valley Forge rejoice at the prospect of going home. Not so for botanist Freeman Lowell, who loves the forest and its creatures. He takes extreme measures to project what's left of Earth's ecosystem.
Douglas Trumbull' s debut movie is a bonafide classic. Warming and heartbreaking in equal measures, you'll see ideas and effects that went on to inform many classic sci-fi features that followed in it's wake.