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2 October - 8 October 2006 ã.
Murmurs of Earth is a concise story of the Creation. Which starts with the Earth Creation which we can see on the screen of radar. Next to the atmosphere, life appears on the Earth and next is the City, the prototype for the city is St-Petersburg.
The film portrays the story of the earth and its future as it could be catched and summarized on a radar some million light years away. The title is borrowed from the two discs that were sent out in space with the Voyager-expedition in 1977.
The discs are a sort of outer space message-in-a-bottle that contains images, music and other info that presents humanity to other life in the Universe. This fantastic and naive idea can be seen as a part of the sci-fi-golden age of the seventies. A time when films likes Star Wars, Moonbase Alfa and Close Encounters of the Third Kind were made, and when arcade games such as Space Invaders, Missile Command and Asteroids conquered a whole generation. At the same time the disco- and techno king Giorgio Moroder filled the dancefloors with his music.
Murmurs of Earth is a sci-fi-dystopia inspired by this epoch, where Lars Arrhenius visualizes questions around our origin and our future.
The work was commissioned by the NCCA in Russia and is a part of the project The Field Studies in St Petersburg (Curated by Maria Korosteleva).
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