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Video: “In Saturn’s Rings” to fly viewers through real space

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The IMAX film project In Saturn’s Rings employes new techniques with high-resolution still photos from space, probes like the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn, to give viewers a vivid authentic sense of flying through the scene. Below is a new trailer that gives a taste of how the IMAX film, set to be released in 2014, will take the audience into space with photos from 26 different missions: New trailer for In Saturn’s Rings is guaranteed to give you goosebumps

From the website:

In Saturn’s Rings is a non-profit giant-screen art film that takes audiences on a journey of the mind, heart and spirit from the big bang to the near future via the Cassini-Huygens Mission at Saturn. Currently in production after years of development, In Saturn’s Rings aims for global release late next year.

Composed entirely of still photographs using innovative visual techniques developed by the filmmaker, In Saturn’s Rings stretches the boundaries of the motion picture form. The film will feature powerful music by Ferry Corsten, William Orbit, Samuel Barber and melds non-narrative visual poetry & science documentary into a rich experience for audiences.

In Saturn’s Rings is a film that’s both personal and universal, experimental and sincere, science and spirit , non-narrative and documentary. The goal is to use large screen imagery, synchronized to powerful but moving music, to create an experience for those who see it, hear it and feel it.

Using hundreds of thousands of still images manipulated to create full motion, using “2.75D” photographic fly-through technology. The film will be presented in IMAX® quality 6K resolution on massive screens and concert-level surround systems to audiences in giant screen institutions, IMAX® theaters, fulldome planetariums, museums and select 4k digital cinemas.

2 thoughts on “Video: “In Saturn’s Rings” to fly viewers through real space”

  1. I remember when Stephen van Vuuren was first starting this project a few years ago, he came to the Southern Star Astronomical Convention showing his preliminary work that he had done is his basement and we were wowed! He was trying to raise $10,000 to move the project to a more advanced level. A year after that at the next Southern Star a friend of his (Ken Randall) gave us a progress report of how the project was coming and presented even more impressive progress. It’s great to see it all coming to its magnificent fruition after all this time and work.

  2. I’m looking forward to seeing the IMAX version. Does seem to give a real sense of moving through the photos. Should be even more dramatic on the (really) big screen.

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