In Case You Missed "Cielo" at AAS 234
Richard Fienberg Running Hare Observatory
The documentary film Cielo, which was shown at the 234th AAS meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, in June 2019, is now available on demand for rental, purchase, or streaming via Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video.
Cielo (Sky or Heaven in Spanish) is a 78-minute cinematic journey into the Atacama Desert, Chile. Filmmaker Alison McAlpine describes it this way: “Cielo drifts between science and spirituality, the arid land, desert shores, and lush galaxies, expanding the limits of our earthling imaginations. Planet hunters in the Atacama’s astronomical observatories and desert dwellers who work the land and sea share their evocative visions of the stars and planets, their mythic stories, and their existential queries with remarkable openness and a contagious sense of wonder. A love poem for the night sky, Cielo transports us to a space, quiet and calm, within which we can ponder the infinite and unknown.”
If you missed the screening at AAS 234 or would like to see the film again, you now have the opportunity to see Cielo at your convenience.
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“Cielo is an invitation to slow down, reflect, and rediscover our world,” adds McAlpine, offering, I hope, the audience an evocative space in which to think and imagine for themselves — perhaps even to experience a moment of transcendence.”