2014 | United States | Experimental

Atlantis

  • 24 mins
  • Director | Ben Russell
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A portrait of Utopia loosely framed by Plato's invocation of the lost continent of Atlantis in 360 B.C. and its resurrection via a 1970s science fiction pulp novel.

Some say that the island of Malta is a remnant of the lost continent of Atlantis, a contested claim that superimposes the mythic grandeur of a drowned past onto the quotidian existence of a present society. From Plato to pulpy science fiction and into the sea, Atlantis is a search for utopia – and a reflection on the desire for it – that documents place and non-place at once.

portrait Utopia science fiction Atlantis sea
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