These are not the usual time-lapse images but high resolution video at 30 fps taken by specialmulti cameras with low light sensors. The audiences will experience sophisticated and still dynamic featuresof the real Aurora storm. Also, scientific explanations and beautiful art works about the legend of the aurora arefeatured throughout the movie.
Duration | 29 min |
Target audience | General public |
Technology | Fulldome video of 3D and 2D computer animated graphics |
Orientation | Unidirectional |
Production/year | Metaspace, Seoul, 2016 |
Languages | English, ask for other languages |
Awards | JANUS Astro Award - 11th FullDome Festival, Jena 2017 |
A movie bound to make polar light addicts.
Kwon O Chul puts them onto the dome for us – authentically, in real time, emotively – und stirs up our desire to experience them in nature. The film answers many questions. What thoughts may these heavenly dancers have provoked in people generations before now? What actually causes them and their display of colors? Where on Earth could one watch them best?»Aurora – Lights of Wonder« is a convincing documentation with many outreaches into the genre of scientific edutainment. Done in an exceedingly professional manner, it is a fulldome experience that engraves itself on one’s memory. It is not by mere chance that auroras have become a subject of current interest that is capturing planetarium domes: camera technology is at last capable of recording those filigree light curtains in digital form.