On July 15, Hamptons Doc Fest founder/executive director Jacqui Lofaro added access to the first-run documentary film “Spaceship Earth” on the hamptonsdocfest.com website.
Directed by Matt Wolf, “Spaceship Earth” (2020, 115 min.), almost like a science fiction film, tells the visionary story about an historic experiment involving eight men and women who built and in 1991 quarantined themselves for two years inside a giant, pyramid-shaped glass replica of the Earth’s ecosystem, called Biosphere 2, in New Mexico. Then something happens to the group that threatens the entire project.
Wolf gathered 600 hours of archival footage about the experiment and was glad to learn that the inventors and participants were still alive. “I wanted to make a film about the entire world—how we might live in it sustainably, and what imprint we might make during our lifetimes,” he said. “While making the film, I never could have imagined that a pandemic would require the entire world to be quarantined.”
Other films also available through the Hamptons Doc Fest website, most with Q&As from the directors’ appearances at the Hamptons Doc Fest film festival in previous years, are “Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life,” “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am,” “In Search of Israeli Cuisine,” “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,” “The Biggest Little Farm,” “Three Identical Strangers,” “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” “Spielberg,” “Life, Animated,” “Very Semi-Serious,” “Free Solo,” “To a More Perfect Union: U.S. v. Windsor,” “Marvin Booker Was Murdered,” the new first-run documentary “Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint,” “Dads” for Father’s Day, “Pick of the Litter,” “Jane Fonda in Five Acts,” and the new first-run documentary “John Lewis: Good Trouble.”
Staff Writer on Jul 14, 2020