A 3-minute cosmic fever dream that'll make you weep over a spaceship's death.
After her long, arduous training, our young Apprentice is now a fully fledged Master of cosmic origins, exploring an alien planet rich with water and life. But something familiar crosses her mind. Memories from her training and Rosetta’s historic journey to catch a comet. She returns to the archives. The epilogue to the award-winning 2014 short film Ambition, released as the Rosetta spaceship is set to complete its historic mission in a controlled descent to the surface of its comet on September 30, 2016.
Cinematography
Stunning alien vistas on apparently zero budget
Score
Haunting music that weaponizes nostalgia
Production
ESA commissioned this! Space agency! Art!
Director
Maciej Jackiewicz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released same day Rosetta crashed into Comet 67P—this is literally a funeral film for a spacecraft.
Part of ESA's unprecedented art-meets-science campaign; they actually care about making you feel things about space exploration.
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