This one doesn't ask for your attention, it just tilts your head back and takes it. KAGAYA built his whole career on painting starfields and zodiac myths in CG, and here the fulldome format turns that into something closer to a ride than a movie: Greek constellation figures unspooling overhead, the astronomy kid's obsession rendered at the scale it always lived at in his head. Then it cuts to real footage of the 2003 total solar eclipse shot in Antarctica, the first time humans ever caught that one, and the switch from gorgeous rendered space to actual sky is the whole point. No trauma arc, no twist, just a guy who loved the stars enough to build a career out of drawing them and telling you to do the same. Slept on because most people never got to see it projected right."Enjoy science and art" lands harder than it should.
A boy who loved astronomy grows up to become an artist who paints the universe. His subjects include the zodiac and other Greek myths, along with many views of the starry sky. His imaginative CG films are projected across a fulldome screen, and they are paired with live-action footage of the 2003 total solar eclipse in Antarctica, the first eclipse humans ever observed there. The artist, KAGAYA, also shares a message urging viewers to take pleasure in both science and art and to pursue their dreams. The result is a fantasy and sci-fi fulldome film about the pull of the night sky.