Urth
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Directed by Ben Rivers | 19 mins | 2016
Written by the science-fiction author Mark von Schlegell and filmed on location at the Biosphere 2 complex in Arizona, site of one of the twentieth century’s most infamous utopian experiments, "Urth" unfolds according to the logbook of a grad student—the last scientist in the complex, and perhaps the last woman on the planet—as she meditates upon the practical and psychological difficulties of existence in a closed environment.
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