On Space, Love, and Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Mix Tape
The Voyagers, an experimental documentary by Penny Lane, tells the story of the NASA project to launch two spacecraft carrying golden records holding a wealth of human culture into space in 1977. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 pioneered research of the far reaches of our solar system and continue to hurtle further into outer space today. In the process of putting together these time capsules of human experience, Carl Sagan and the project’s creative director, Annie Druyan, fell in love. Their story resonated with Lane, who created this very personal take on it for her own wedding, as a meditation on the nature of love in an uncertain universe. She describes her inspiration for the film and the process of making it in an interview with the Atlantic Video channel.
Via the World’s Best Ever.
Relevant to a current W&S video in production, Carl Sagan’s ultimate mixtape hurtling through the cosmos.
If you watch nothing else today.
