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Maori astrobiologist Xuê Noon (Victoria Hunt) finds solace in Mars in 2051 as a leader from the Aotearoa Space Agency on an international scientific mission, following the discovery of dormant microorganisms by the NASA Mars Sample Return Mission in 2039. Xuê wanders across this sentient planet and reflects on the newly found lifeforms as she grows plants in a glasshouse. Through the spirit of an ancient taniwha, she slipstreams in spacetime to the Atacama Desert in 2023 where she lived as an Indigenous scientist years earlier. In Atacama the film engages with numerous ongoing life-and-death struggles for land and water justice led by Indigenous communities, activists, and scientists in this old, vital yet scarred desert. Through interviews and conversations, the film depicts centuries old and ongoing forms of social injustice and ecological degradation to weave a critical allegory against the renewed commercial impulse of a new space age rampaging in the 2020's.
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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 2024-01-01
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- timer Runtime: 94 Mins
- star Rating: 6 / 10
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Victoria Hunt
Xuê Noon
Adriana Aránguiz
Participant
Jimena Cruz Mamani
Participant
Rudecindo Christian Espíndola
Participant
Félix Galleguillos Aymani
Participant
Edith Parra Espíndola
Participant
José Sánchez
Participant
Camilo Sanzana
Participant
Elizabeth Tejerina
Participant
Millarca Valenzuela
Participant
Flora Vilches
Participant
Waiaria Page Macedone-Hunt
Participant
groups Crew
Juan Francisco Salazar
Director
Juan Francisco Salazar
Writer
Victoria Hunt
Writer
James Peter Brown
Music
James Peter Brown
Sound Designer
Rowena Crowe
Editor
Moe Clark
Location Sound Recordist
Juan Francisco Salazar
Location Sound Recordist
Juan Francisco Salazar
Executive Producer
Alejandra Canales
Executive Producer
Juan Francisco Salazar
Camera Operator
Flora Vilches
Costume Design
Boris Bagattini
Costume Design
Matthew Stegh
Costume Design
Samara Davis
Costume Design
Victoria Hunt
Costume Design
Juan Francisco Salazar
Costume Design
Victoria Hunt
Field Director
Valentina Figueroa
Field Director
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