Spaceship Earth + Silent Running

Programme

• Spaceship Earth (Matt Wolf, US 2020, 113')

  Was it a silly hippie project, applied biology, a social experiment, or art? Eight young adventurers locked themselves in a hermetically sealed replica of planet Earth's ecosystem, the Biosphere 2, for two years in 1991. The only influence from outside was the sunlight streaming in through the dome. Biosphere 2 was an experiment to find out how people can live in ecological balance with nature.
  
  Soon, however, the group was trying to survive; CO2 emissions increased, harvests were disappointing and the experiments did not meet scientific standards. After two years, the participants left the biosphere very emaciated and exhausted.
  
  Matt Wolf's documentary is the down-to-earth counterpart to the SF movie Silent Running, in which a botanist in a spaceship does everything he can to preserve the last living plants of planet Earth. John Allen's dream was to make other planets suitable for human habitation with Biosphere-like domes.

• Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull, US 1971, 89')

  Is there hope for humanity? Perhaps, if botanist Freeman Lowell can succeed in keeping the last trees and crops that could be saved alive in greenhouses in space. Douglas Trumbull’s eco science fiction from 1972 became a cult hit with a serious, urgent message.
  
  Botanist Freeman Lowell is flying to the Rings of Saturn in a stolen spaceship, with the last trees and gardens from planet Earth on board. Will he succeed in saving botanical life from Earth?