SNAPSHOT
It’s business as usual for a deep space pilot, until a strange anomaly hits her ship and knocks it off course. Once she opens the viewport, she starts hearing strange noises that show up as something large on the scanner … (courtesy YouTube)
Even the most wondrously-inclined of us can begin to feel like everything’s more than a little ho-hum.
And that can happen even in the most extraordinary of circumstances such as one depicted in new-ish DUST short, Carrier, where a terminally bored person above a spaceship is so bored with her job that nothing engages her sense of wonder or excitement at all.
I mean, she’s in freaking outer space – shouldn’t she be endlessly enraptured and thrilled without interruption?
In an idealistic world, or universe really, she should be but life has a way of making even the most wondrous of things repetitively banal if we let them, and often even when we don’t, and so it has happened to the protagonist of Carrier, written, directed and edited by Thomas Saville, who is at the point where expects nothing to surprise or delight her.
Until it does … and the result is as magically reenergising as you could hope for, a tribute to how much we all need to see and be part of something much greater than ourselves.