Film Review – Spaceship Earth

I think most people, if they recall the saga of the Biosphere 2 experiment, remember it as a media-driven curiosity, finding the science of it all pushed away in favor of emphasizing the weirdness of the endeavor. In 1991, a group of trained “Biospherians” elected to seal themselves off from the rest of the world, living inside an Earth system research facility located in Oracle, Arizona for two years, put in charge of various biomes as a way of experimenting with early plans to transfer people to other worlds to live. It was years of build-up and promotion, and the result was a messy collection of mistakes, putting the pure science of the mission in jeopardy as money men and analysts feasted on the shortcomings of the project. Nearly three decades after its debut, director Matt Wolf makes a return to Biosphere 2 for “Spaceship Earth,” a documentary that searches for the true story behind the mystery of the event, with special attention paid to those who put the project together, spending decades of their lives devoted to a vision of environmental exploration. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com