Contact with Chicane

Film: This is the opening sequence of the film Contact (1997) by Robert Zemeckis, based on Carl Sagan's novel which features a pull-back very similar to the first half of Charles and Ray Eames short film "Powers of Ten." The original audio was removed, but the point of it was to show the dispersion of human-generated radio signals across the universe (i.e., we haven't been transmitting long enough to make ourselves known very far from home). By about two-thirds of the way into the segement, there's nothing but silence. I saw this three times in the theater around the time it came out, and that silence was so loud every time, I get chills thinking about it.

My only edits were to remove the title and introduce a slight fade-in. Originally it "blasts" you visually much as the audio does with the aforementioned radio cacophony, and that didn't gel with the music I added here. Speaking of which...

Music: Arizona Pt.2 by Chicane. No edits were made. Things lined up surprisingly well so I used this instead of a couple other tracks I preferred but would have had to manipulate.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Contact
• Carl
• Sagan
• SETI
• astronomy
• Chicane
• electronica