These Blazeing Starrs! (2011)
Since comets have been recorded, they’ve augured disaster: catastrophe, messiahs, upheaval and end times. A short film about these meteoric ice-cored fireballs and their historic ties to divination that combines imagery of 15th-18th century European broadsides with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory footage. …These Blazeing Starrs! juxtaposes a modern empirical desire to probe and measure against older methods, when star gazers were translators, explicating the sky more intuitively for predictions of human folly. Comets are now understood as time capsules harboring elemental information about the formation of our solar system. Today we smash rockets into them to read spectral signatures. In a sense, they remain oracles - it’s just the manner of divining which has changed.
Keywords
comet, woman director
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is These Blazeing Starrs! about?
- Since comets have been recorded, they’ve augured disaster: catastrophe, messiahs, upheaval and end times. A short film about these meteoric ice-cored fireballs and their historic ties to divination that combines imagery of 15th-18th century European broadsides with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory footage. …These Blazeing Starrs! juxtaposes a modern empirical desire to probe and measure against older methods, when star gazers were translators, explicating the sky more intuitively for predictions of human folly. Comets are now understood as time capsules harboring elemental information about the formation of our solar system. Today we smash rockets into them to read spectral signatures. In a sense, they remain oracles - it’s just the manner of divining which has changed.
- Who directed These Blazeing Starrs!?
- These Blazeing Starrs! was directed by Deborah Stratman.
- How long is These Blazeing Starrs!?
- These Blazeing Starrs! has a runtime of 14m (14 minutes).
- What genre is These Blazeing Starrs!?
- These Blazeing Starrs! is a Documentary film.
- Where was These Blazeing Starrs! produced?
- These Blazeing Starrs! was produced in United States of America.