Spaceship Earth: Documentary Online
Fri, May 08
|Epsilon Spires Virtual Cinema
Chronicling a landmark undertaking at the corner of Counterculture and Science: this film examines the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called: BIOSPHERE 2.
Time & Location
May 08, 2020, 3:00 PM – May 22, 2020, 11:59 PM
Epsilon Spires Virtual Cinema
About the event
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Deep in the Arizona desert, there’s an enormous glass terrarium where a miniature replica of earth’s ecosystem lives called Biosphere 2. Its conception began at a countercultural commune “Theater of All Possibilities”, an innovative group of artists, adventurers, and ecologists, forged an alliance with a Texas oil scion to create Biosphere 2 as a pilot for Mars colonization. They also hoped that their project would be a model for sustainable living on earth—also known as Biosphere 1.
In 1991 their spectacular project became a media sensation, when eight “biospherians” went to live hermetically sealed under the glass dome for two years. However, shortly after their mission began, the biospherians contended with ecological calamities—from food shortages to oxygen deprivation—and quickly the media’s fanfare turned to scorn. Cult accusations surfaced about the project’s management, and Biosphere 2 was labeled science fiction, instead of a credible scientific experiment.