Matt Wolf’s SPACESHIP EARTH Available Everywhere May 8th

NEON will launch the Sundance hit ​Spaceship Earth​ on May 8th across aninnovative footprint of both traditional and non-traditional venues. As an homage to NEON’s love of cinema, the filmwill play theatrically in participating drive-ins, and select pop-up city-scape projections (safely accessible byquarantined city dwellers). In addition, NEON has made a special arrangement with exhibitors to launch the film ontheater websites plus websites of other affected businesses interested in participating. Current confirmed distributionpartners include film festivals, museums and first-time film purveyors like bookstores, restaurants and more. Thefootprint is rounded out by a simultaneous digital launch on Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play, FandangoNow, Vudu, DIRECTV, DISH and longtime NEON partner Hulu.

SPACESHIP EARTH is the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of 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. Check Out the Trailer:

The title Spaceship Earth is inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s seminal countercultural book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, which asserts that the earth is a spaceship flying through the universe with a finite set of resources that cannot be resupplied. The synergists met with Fuller on multiple occasions, and in fact his concept of “synergy”inspired their name. His iconic geodesic dome became a symbol of sustainability, which influenced the group and the design and construction of Biosphere 2.Spaceship Earth is also the name of the iconic Epcot amusement park ride—itself a geodesic dome with animatronic vignettes that celebrate human aspiration and the future. This continuity between the earnest idealism of the 1960Sand the theme park theatrics of the 1980S captures the spirit of Biosphere 2.

” While making this film, I never could have imagined that a pandemic would require the entire world to be quarantined. Like all of us today, the biospherians lived confined inside, and they managed day to day life with limited resources, often under great interpersonal stress. But when they re-entered the world, they were forever transformed—no longer would they take anything for granted—not even a breath. In light of Covid-19, we are all living like biospherians, and we too will reenter a new world. The question is how will we be transformed? Now with a visceral sense of the fragility of our world, it’s on us to protect it.”– Matt Wolf