Nature’s Underworld Film Series: Silent Running (1972)

Name: Nature’s Underworld Film Series: Silent Running (1972)
Start: 2024-11-21T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery

Schedule

Thu Nov 21 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery | Saratoga Springs, NY

Join us Thursday, November 21 (initially scheduled for November 14) at 6 pm, for Douglas Trumbull’s Silent Running (1972, US, 89 min., 35mm to digital transfer), which screens as part of our Nature’s Underworld Film Series, featuring eight films inspired by the exhibition Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld.
In the not-so-distant future, Earth is barren of all flora and fauna, with what remains of the planet’s former ecosystems preserved aboard a fleet of greenhouses orbiting in space. When the crews are ordered to destroy the remaining specimens, one botanist, Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern, The ’Burbs), rebels and flees towards Saturn in a desperate bid to preserve his own little piece of Earth that was, accompanied only by the ship’s three service robots. Featuring a captivating central performance by Dern, visual effects that rival anything in 2001 and a powerful ecological message, Silent Running is a haunting and prescient sci-fi classic that resonates even more strongly today than it did at the time of its original release.
To learn more about this Whole Grain even and Nature's Underworld Series, check out this link: https://tang.skidmore.edu/calendar/2362-natures-underworld-film-series-silent-running-1972