You Need To Watch This Stunning And Awe-Inspiring Short Film About Humanity Exploring The Solar System
“I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas…”
Ever since we landed a probe on a comet a couple of weeks ago, there’s been a renewed interest in all things space, and a new short film called Wanderers is a perfect reminder of why we’re fascinated by what’s up there in the first place. Swedish visual effects and graphics artist Erik Wernquist has created a gorgeous and deeply moving four-minute film about humanity’s future exploring the solar system, and the very human impulse that drives our desire to eventually do it.
“Without any apparent story, other than what you may fill in by yourself, the idea of the film is primarily to show a glimpse of the fantastic and beautiful nature that surrounds us on our neighboring worlds – and above all, how it might appear to us if we were there,” Wernquist says of the film. “Wanderers is a vision of humanity’s expansion into the Solar System, based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space might look like, if it ever happens.”
The scenes depicted in the film all take place on recreations of actual places in our Solar System — Mars, Saturn’s moons Iapetus and Titan, and Jupiter’s moon Europa, among others. Wernquist gives a scene-by-scene rundown of each place, which you can read here.
In the meantime, though, watch Wanderers. Then watch it again.
Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo.