The director of this short film (just 3:50 long) is named Erik Wernquist and someone needs to give him a lot of money to make a feature length film. This sort of vision reminds me of Neill Blomkamp’s early short films before he made District 9 and Elysium. I’m also all sorts of pumped up about space with Interstellar and recent real life missions. This short film takes advantage of the renewed popularity of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos documentary series and it’s sequel series this year by employing the late astronomer’s voice over his stunning visuals of imagining’s of human activity in far flung reaches of the solar system. This Swedish filmmaker and animator should have big things in his future so long as enough people see this. I’d love to see a full fledged solar system exploration movie or tv series. Sci-fi is an amazing medium to tell great stories and I hope he has some to tell.
The below screen grab is from a scene where astronauts are base jumping on Miranda, a moon of Uranus, off the largest cliff in our solar system called Verona Rupes. It looks like an insane amount of fun with so little gravity.
Then there are explorers on the ice fields of Europa, one of the more interesting moons in our solar system, with Jupiter looming so large it dominates the entire sky.
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