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Spaceship Earth
7.1
/10
222 Ratings

Synopsis

In 1991 a group of countercultural visionaries built an enormous replica of earth’s ecosystem called Biosphere 2. When eight ‘biospherians’ lived sealed inside, they faced ecological calamities and cult accusations.

Our take

Could a group of dreamers mimicking the world’s ecosystem change our relation to the planet’s future? Matt Wolf’s intriguing documentary debunks the myths around the Biosphere 2 project, laying bare the shortcomings of this scientific commune, while doing justice to their utopian vision.