online screening
Atom Spirit
directed by Ursula Mayer, United Kingdom 2016, 20’
Atom Spirit is a speculative narrative set in a near future of increasing biomedical innovation. The film, partly set in Trinidad & Tobago, follows the work of a group of evolutionary geneticists studying and collecting DNA from all forms of life in order to create a cryogenically frozen Ark. Atom Spirit presents a cyborgian future of techno-science in which the residual resonances of extinct civilisations is still felt. Through blending science and mythology the film is a rumination upon the effects of computational and biological technologies on future iterations of humanity and the environment. [Ursula Mayer].
