NOIR · Film
A generation ship is forty years from its destination when a new philosophy begins quietly persuading the crew that the destination was never the point.
Slate indexNotes from the Studio
The film treats utopia as a contagion of meaning. A destination can save a ship, but so can a story about not arriving.
NOIR makes room for science fiction when the dread is not alien invasion but persuasion.
Iris Khan, Pavel Thorne, Lian Brooks
Science consultant Dr. Oren Vall. Visual design by Mae Stellan.
NOIR adjacency
Hana Iwasaki · In Production
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Marlowe Adair · Post-Production
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Reuben Stahl · In Production
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