TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
Fri, Mar 05
|Virtual Cinema
Set in a near-future when commercial space travel has begun, this speculative documentary combines observational footage with virtual reality to create a lyrical meditation on progress, history, and how we navigate a sense of loss within ourselves and a changing world.
Time & Location
Mar 05, 2021, 12:00 AM – Mar 26, 2021, 11:59 PM
Virtual Cinema
About the event
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES (2020) Dir. Hannah Jayanti, 103 mins.
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In 1950, celebrity television show host Ralph Edwards put out a national challenge for a town to rename itself after his game show. The little town of Hot Springs won, and became Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Seventy years later, T or C is the closest town to the world’s first commercial spaceport. Funded and maintained by tax dollars, Spaceport America has cost $220 million to date. It’s rented out to private companies like Virgin Galactic, who have sold tickets for individual spaceflights for $250,000. The Spaceport and private companies promise a burgeoning commercial industry that will democratize space and transform the way we live. Alongside the rhetoric is a shared fear that Earth is dying, and for humanity to survive we have to move elsewhere.
In a new practice called “speculative documentary”, the filmmakers take the present day…