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.

Matt Wolf is a filmmaker in New York. His critically acclaimed and award-winning films have played widely in festivals and have been distributed internationally in theaters and on television. Matt’s feature documentaries include Wild Combination about the cultcellist and disco producer Arthur Russell, and Teenage about early youth culture andthe birth of teenagers. His recent film Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project is about theactivist Marion Stokes, who secretly recorded television 24hours a day for 30 years.Matt’s work in television includes the HBO Documentary It’s Me, Hilary about the Eloise Illustrator Hilary Knight, executive produced by Lena Dunham and JenniKonner. He was also Executive Producer, Showrunner, and Writer on a NationalGeographic miniseries I Am Rebel alongside Doug Liman. The series features 1930s crime scene photographer Weegee, the 1970s police brutality activist turned hijacker Louis Moore, psychedelic chemist Alexander Shulgin, and the hacker Kevin Mitnick.Matt's recent short film Bayard & Me is about the civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who adopted his younger boyfriend in the early 1980Sto obtain equal rights. His other shorts include I Remember about the artist and writer Joe Brainard and The Face of AIDS for Time Magazine about a notorious 1992Benetton advertisement. Matt has made a number of short series about the arts for organizations like The Whitney Museum and the New York Times, and commercials and content for numerous brands.In addition to filmmaking, Matt organizes film screenings and public events, and he wasthe Co-Curator of Film for the 2019 Whitney Biennial. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and amember of the Directors Guild and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

Little White Lies

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian