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Video: Wanderers by Erik Wernquist

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This is a really cool short film. I used to be a big sci-fi fan and this short film intrigued me when I watched it. This is supposed to be a realistic imagining of what the future of mankind might be. It is narrated by Carl Sagan . Do you think it could turn out like this? Will we explore the solar system? Check out the video and may you be taken on a journey for the next few minutes. Here is the description Wanderers is a vision of humanity's expansion into the Solar System, based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space might look like, if it ever happens. The locations depicted in the film are digital recreations of actual places in the Solar System, built from real photos and map data where available. Without any apparent story, other than what you may fill in by yourself, the idea of the film is primarily to show a glimpse of the fantastic and beautiful nature that surrounds us on our neighboring worlds - and above all, how it might appear to us if ...

Video: Avatar "Colonel Miles"

O.K, O.K I admit it, I can't wait to watch this movie!

Movie Seen! Pumzi: Does Kenya's first sci-film hold up?

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  With Pumzi set to be Kenya's first science fiction(sci-fi) film, Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu surely had her work cut out for her to ensure she set the standards high and didn't disappoint Kenyan audiences. Although there was controversy surrounding another Kenyan film Otto: The Bloodbath , a horror film(which I'm yet to see) it does seem Kenyan filmmakers are finally exploring other film genres. Though I'm skeptical as to the claims that Otto was Kenya's first horror film, I am pretty sure there hasn't been a Kenyan sci-fi flick before. Set 35 years after World War 3, the movie takes place in a futuristic East Africa that has been devastated by the effects of drought and global warming. Kenya is now a barren wasteland in which (as we see on a newspaper headline) people have to trek for days in search of water. Millions of people have perished and there are few places where one can escape the drought.   A Natural History Museum, which also acts as a sa...