DocumentaryTech has profiled filmmaker Stephen van Vuuren and his latest Giant Screen project, Outside In. Using tens of thousands of still images manipulated to create full motion, the film takes audiences from the big bang to our present day. Outside In is scheduled for release to IMAX and other Giant Screen theaters November 11, 2011. DocumentaryTech writes:
Stephen van Vuuren was about to be promoted to VP of a Fortune 500 company. But he turned it down in order to pursue his dreams of crafting an IMAX documentary of a “literal single take journey from the moments before the big bang to earth 500,000 years ago to the year 2050 on earth then to Saturn and back to Earth.”
Influenced by Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, van Vuuren “dreamed of being an astronaut and actually was accepted (but could not afford to attend) MIT as an astrophysics major,” he explains in an interview. “However, a year later I saw Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 and heard the call to filmmaking.”
Taking his love for space exploration, van Vuuren utilizes hundreds of thousands of NASA spacecraft archive images to take his audience on a journey of sights and sounds, a journey he hopes will provide a perspective on a grand scale, one by which he hopes will allow someone to look from the outside in, and “change how we see ourselves” by “taking the journey [of] these spacecraft and seeing through their eyes.”
But it won’t all be made up of NASA space images. He says the film “ends up being a journey through the transformative archive of human images from cave paintings to our near future. I will end up having images from every era and section of human history in the film.”
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