No matter the circumstances, and these are certainly unforeseeable ones, NEON remains committed to the big screen.
To that end, on May 6, NEON screened their latest film “Spaceship Earth.”
“Spaceship Earth” was projected on a blank wall on Bowery and Houston, making it the first outdoor screening in New York City since the beginning of their quarantine.
People in surrounding buildings were given the screening information and were told to download the WallTime app to listen to the audio.
Director Matt Wolf was in attendance for an intro and Q&A.
Rooftop Films worked with NEON on the logistics.
“Spaceship Earth” is available everywhere now.
“Spaceship Earth” is the true, stranger-than-fiction adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside a self-engineered replica of earth’s ecosystem called Biosphere 2.
The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that it was nothing more than a cult.
The bizarre story is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers can potentially reimagine a new world.
