Spaceship Earth director and Biospherian Linda Leigh joined us last Sunday for an amazing Q&A hosted by Serpentine CEO Bettina Korek, in collaboration with Serpentine Galleries. Catch up on the accessible recording below. This wild and compelling doc is available to watch now on all digital platforms.
If you’ve enjoyed this Q&A, do check out the Barbican’s ScreenTalk with Matt, hosted by the Architecture Foundation’s Justin Jackle, this Thursday 16 July at 8pm, and rent the film on Barbican’s new Cinema on Demand platform.
Spaceship Earth is the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2. The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that it was nothing more than a cult. The bizarre story is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers can potentially reimagine a new world.