Event

Silent Running-Environmental Film Festival

Dir: Douglas Trumbull / 1971 / US / 90 minutes/ 35 mm film
Truly a film that was ahead of its time, Silent Running is classic sci-fi that radiates a vital message that still has an impact today. Set during a disconcerting future, the year is 2008, and the Earth has been transformed into a technological marvel: an efficient moonscape filled with humans inhabiting cities that run over with the most modern of accommodations technology can create. The only things missing are trees and grass and anything considered a product of nature, which has been deemed primitive and obsolete in such a contemporary time. But everything green is not lost; itâs just floating high above the Earth in giant glass atriums, being preserved for the time that the planet needs its original inhabitants once again. Lowell (Bruce Dern) is one of the men in charge of this space expedition. He loves his trees and the green grass, and he knows that these glorified greenhouses are their last hope.