Why the isolation doc Spaceship Earth feels so tailor-made for this moment
and self-isolation. The documentary tells the story of an ambitious early-1990s experiment that saw eight people live inside a closed-off artificial ecosystem, known as Biosphere 2, for two years. The brainchild of a countercultural, experimental theater group known as the Synergists, the biosphere was intended to test whether such environments might be viable should Earth be rendered uninhabitable.
"I hope this film is inspiring, but I also think it's a cautionary tale because there are limitations towards idealistic ambition," Wolf adds. "They created a kind of theatrical spectacle that was educational as well as instructive. But when they put those unconventional ideas in the mass media, the two proved to be irreconcilable.
How did the biospherians react when you approached them about doing this film, after they had received so much of that skepticism and negative coverage from the media? What I'm interested in is the ambiguity in the story and the complexity of people and their intentions and motivations, and so I went to them saying that I was really interested in this prehistory of Biosphere 2. I wanted to take a much larger view than just this one project, and to understand the ideas and activities of an unusual group, and how they found expression in this project, and what the scope and ambition of it was, and what its limitations were as well.
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