Orbit(film)

NOTE: Due to a tragic faculty death, tonight's screening of Orbit[film] at USM's Southworth Planetarium has been CANCELED. Come see the omnibus film on Wednesday at 7pm or Sunday at 1pm. Our sincere condolences to the staff and family of the USM Astronomy Dept.

SPACE presents a fieldtrip opportunity to USM's Southworth Planetarium.

Orbit(film) is a project that uses the art of cin­ema to inspire the art of sci­ence and edu­ca­tion. A col­lab­o­ra­tive, 80-minute omnibus movie about our solar sys­tem, Orbit(film) is intended for all ages, as grade-schoolers will have their inter­est in art and sci­ence piqued, and older gen­er­a­tions will have their youth­ful love of space renewed.

In Orbit(film), every planet in our solar sys­tem is rep­re­sented by a short film, each made by a dif­fer­ent film­maker, deal­ing with the sci­ence of outer space through cre­ative and emo­tional sto­ry­telling and visual poetry. Some or all of the orig­i­nal source mate­r­ial will come from NASA footage, rein­ter­preted by each film­maker to make a por­trait of the respec­tive planet. Non-planet films cover the sun, moon, comets and the first dog in space.

Each screening will be preceeded by a brief night sky tour in the planetarium dome.  The Southworth Planetarium is in the Science Building on the University of Southern Maine's Portland Campus. The building's physical address is 70 Falmouth Street, Portland, Maine.

Orbit(film) website.

The films:

THE SUN — Brent Hoff
MERCURY — Ben Coon­ley
VENUS — Jes­sica Oreck
THE MOON — Brian M. Cas­sidy and Melanie Shatzky
MARS — Mark Eli­jah Rosen­berg
COMETS — Deb­o­rah Strat­man
JUPITER – Kelly Sears
SATURN – Michael Gitlin and Jacque­line Goss
NEPTUNE — Posei­don
URANUS — Bill Brown
PLUTO and RE-ENTRY– Travis Wilk­er­son
and a note about EARTH by Mike Plante

Orbit(Film) Teaser from Mike Plante on Vimeo.