A Life On Mars

Since 2012, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has transmitted half a million photos back to Earth. Separately, these images show the Martian terrain, breathtaking panoramas, and enable exciting scientific discoveries - essential knowledge for future, manned missions to Mars. But when these images are played in sequence, a question forms - how does it feel to be alone on an alien planet?

Constructed entirely from raw images and audio sourced from NASA’s open-data project, this short documentary digs through Curiosity’s nine-year history on Mars to find the hidden moments - moments of excitement, alien sunsets, shifting sands, solitude, and even aging - the things humankind may one day experience on Mars first hand.

Director: Sebastian Ko