Wanderers è un cortometraggio fantascientifico di Erik Wernquist, digital artist svedese.
Gli scenari che compaiono di volta in volta sono tutte ricostruzioni di zone reali del Sistema Solare, e sono state realizzate basandosi su fotografie e dati concreti (almeno fin dove disponibili).
La voce fuori campo è del famoso autore e astronomo Carl Sagan, ricordato anche per le sue doti di divulgatore scientifico.
Il titolo Wanderers (vagabondi) si riferisce in parte al significato originale dalla parola, cioè “pianeta” (i greci una volta chiamavano i pianeti “stelle vagabonde”), e in parte si riferisce all’umanità.
Ecco la citazione di Carl Sagan presente nel video:
“For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.
We invest far-off places with a certain romance. This appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival. Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game – none of them lasts forever. Your own life, or your band’s, or even your species’ might be owed to a restless few – drawn, by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands and new worlds.
Herman Melville, in Moby Dick, spoke for wanderers in all epochs and meridians. He said: “I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas…”
Maybe it’s a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds – promising untold opportunities – beckon.
Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.”
Monique Namie 