…These Blazeing Starrs!

2011
Country: USA
Duration: 14 mins
|16 Seconds
B&W,
Sound: Stereo / Mono Optical
Ratio: 4:3
Available Format/s: 16mm Print / HD Digital file
Original Format: 16mm Film

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Since comets have been recorded, they’ve augured disaster: catastrophe, messiahs, upheaval and end times. A short film about these meteoric ice-cored fireballs and their historic ties to divination that combines imagery of 15th-18th century European broadsides with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory footage.

…These Blazeing Starrs! juxtaposes a modern empirical desire to probe and measure against older methods, when star gazers were translators, explicating the sky more intuitively for predictions of human folly. Comets are now understood as time capsules harboring elemental information about the formation of our solar system. Today we smash rockets into them to read spectral signatures. In a sense, they remain oracles – it’s just the manner of divining which has changed.

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