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About this video essay:
Examining the varying ways in which space movies try to capture and understand the unfathomable scale of the universe, and exploring the existential dread and wonder that arise from the effort.

0:00 Prologue
0:15 The Problem of Scale
2:38 How Movies Convey Size
5:14 Where Movies Fall Short
7:31 The Weight of Infinity
10:25 Overwhelming Time and Space
13:17 A Dialogue with the Cosmos
16:36 The Journey Home
19:46 The Space Game Paradox

Media included:
2001: A Space Odyssey; Ad Astra; Interstellar; Sunshine; The Tree of Life; Star Trek; Star Wars; Event Horizon; First Man; Prometheus; Alien: Covenant; Eternals; Dune; Godzilla; Gravity; Passengers; Rogue One; Voyage of Time; The Martian

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