Interesting experimental film which opens with an overhead shot of a couple picnicking in a park and then slowly zooms out, our virtual camera increasing its zoom distance by a power of ten every ten seconds.
Through the earth's atmosphere and beyond the solar system we go, escaping our galaxy and the visible universe. Nebulae, stars, solar systems and galaxies flash by, until our camera reverses its course and we're propelled, very suddenly, back toward earth.
After a while the picnic scene is displayed again, but the camera doesn't stop there. The viewer is zoomed into the hand of a relaxing man, gliding deeper and deeper inside the human body until we reach the subatomic level. Like planets, these atoms, protons and neutrons zoom by, the film finally pausing on the image of a quark cluster.
8/10 – A very influential little film. "Cosmic Zoom", a similar short, was released the same year. Such experimental films seem to have been inspired by the space race and the first moon landing. Note- this film was made in 1968, not 1977 (as wrongly claimed by IMDb).
Through the earth's atmosphere and beyond the solar system we go, escaping our galaxy and the visible universe. Nebulae, stars, solar systems and galaxies flash by, until our camera reverses its course and we're propelled, very suddenly, back toward earth.
After a while the picnic scene is displayed again, but the camera doesn't stop there. The viewer is zoomed into the hand of a relaxing man, gliding deeper and deeper inside the human body until we reach the subatomic level. Like planets, these atoms, protons and neutrons zoom by, the film finally pausing on the image of a quark cluster.
8/10 – A very influential little film. "Cosmic Zoom", a similar short, was released the same year. Such experimental films seem to have been inspired by the space race and the first moon landing. Note- this film was made in 1968, not 1977 (as wrongly claimed by IMDb).