The Fear of Space
What lies beneath the night sky? As your felt straying away from what is known, a certain consternation is felt. Space and its impending terror is a statement from the universe to us, that we are nothing.
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Credits: NASA/Hubble ESA for expanding universe animation,
Nebula animations, Hubble deep field zoom, and the pictures of Saturn and Jupiter.
Most of this footage can be found on: https://hubblesite.org/videos or
https://www.youtube.com/@UCqvjEkH_41m4DYaoNQwk4Bw
(all credits to NASA and Hubble aswell as all rights to their respective owners)
All music used (in order):
1:09 Chapter 1 - Absolute Scale
Tracker - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
The Web - Marten Moses
Ghosting - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
Plastic Sea - Luminist (Korg Volca Keys + MS20 Mini)
Iteration - Broad Sky
HOME - 4
It Can't Be Bargained With - Three Chain Links
6:52 Chapter 2 - Void
Plural - Prism Age
Inner World - Luminist
Man Down - Kevin Macleod
10:16 Final Chapter - Time Decay
Polar Bears - Stevia Sphere
Rainbow Road - 03 Soaring - Patricia Taxxon
Close - Foewi
And Behold - Awlee
Passage - Patricia Taxxon
To the viewer reading this, I spent 100 hours making this video, thank you for enjoying it :)
This isnt "the fear of space or astrophobia" or "the fear of planets" this is cosmophobia, an intense fear of space that stems from the unknown void and time that exists ever so infinitely between our minds and in front of our eyes. This video essay covers this topic in depth and provides a different perspective, to the undying curiosity of "what is our universe"
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