
Flicks, Steve Newall
It’s fascinating to revisit here in Spaceship Earth, not least of all in how much of the film is dedicated to Biosphere II’s origins—not just its concept and construction, but in how the tightly-knit group of people at it centre came not from an academic background, but the communal counter-culture of the 1960s. Less scientists than they were artists or performers, we see in this doco the multiple projects that preceded Biosphere II, and the nature of this collective as being one with both a talismanic leader and theatre at its core.
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