Welcome to ASTRA, your ticket to the stars. This Mixed Reality Experience transports you from Earth to the deepest corners of the cosmos as you embark on a quest to uncover the key ingredients of life in the Universe.
Step foot on planets and their dark moons in a search for future worlds and far away beings.
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It on January 13th 2018, 1.4m people across Hawai’i received an SMS from the state’s Emergency Management Agency: BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
In the minutes that followed, they were forced to confront existential questions that had been unthinkable just moments before: where could they go for shelter? What would remain of their communities if they survived a nuclear blast? How could they explain to their children why we live in a world where such unimaginable destruction was possible? And how could their own Government continue to pursue nuclear policies that threaten the entire global population every day?
By the time FEMA managed to retract the incorrect warning message, it was too late to pretend that normality would resume. Their collective experience had laid bare the growing threat that nuclear weapons pose to the world. In the words of Kauai resident Cynthia Lazaroff, ‘Nothing happened, but everything changed’.
While bombs rain on Iran, a deeply needed empathetic experience.
Less than 5 gr of Saffron tackles a subject we think we’ve already seen too much of : the often tragic circumstances under which many migrants flee their home countries in search of a better future. A hundred times, stories of shipwrecks, a hundred times the numbers of those drowned at any given moment have filled our screens, anonymous people who disappear from our memories with a snap of the fingers.
Yet Negar’s uniquely intimate approach touches something deeply personal within us. She evokes our capacity to identify profoundly with a survivor by placing her in a universally familiar, everyday situation—preparing a meal. What might seem trivial becomes essential: can one relive trauma to awaken to a new life?
Negar turns our attention to the aftermath, to the moment when safety is finally achieved, and one can permit oneself to exist without fear. Throughout this authentic immersion, it is her protagonist, Golnaz, who guides us toward self-reflection. Our proximity to Golnaz is absolute: we experience almost everything through her perspective as she cooks (we become Golnaz!), and step by step, as the recipe unfolds, we are overwhelmed alongside her by the resurgence of trauma.
Eliza McNitt is a writer and director. She is an Emmy Awards Finalist and recipient of the VR Grand Prize at The Venice Film Festival. She explores the cosmic collision of science and art. From astronauts to astrophysicists, McNitt works alongside scientists to tell stories about the human connection to the cosmos. Her VR experiences have appeared at Sundance, SXSW, AFI Fest, Cannes NEXT, Tribeca, Telluride, and Venice. She’s a two time Intel Science Fair winner, Alfred P. Sloan grant recipient, and Gold Screen Young Director’s Award winner at Cannes Lions.
Written and directed by
Eliza McNitt
Producer
Aurélie Leduc, Arnaud Colinart, Antoine Cayrol, Fred Volhuer, Eliza McNitt
Narrated by
Taylour Paige (English)
Co-produced by
Albyon
A production of
Atlas V
In association with
Albyon
With the support of
Meta, CNC, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, French Immersion
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