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To Scale: The Solar System

2015 USA / Duration: 7 mins
Directed by: Alex Gorosh, Wylie Overstreet

Look at any picture of the solar system, and it seems that everything is relatively close together — the moon an inch or two away from Earth, Mars a little over an inch away from the moon and so on. But posters and websites betray the truth: Things are much, much farther apart.  

In an attempt to give Earthlings a new perspective of the universe, filmmakers Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh head to the Black Rock Desert to build the first to-scale model of the solar system. With an Earth the size of a marble and seven miles of open space with which to work, Overstreet, Gorosh and a few friends embark on a unique scientific endeavor, creating something that only 24 people in the history of mankind have actually seen: a perspective of the solar system, to scale.

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Previous Tour Screenings

DateVenueLocation
Mar 22 2018O'Shaughnessy CenterWhitefish, MTWebsite
Mar 21 2018The Myrna Loy CenterHelena, MTWebsite
Mar 20 2018Lewis & Clark Interpretive CenterGreat Falls, MTWebsite
Apr 14 2017Montrose Pavilion CenterMontrose, COWebsite
Mar 3 2017Vilar Performing Arts CenterBeaver Creek, COWebsite
Feb 24 2017Tower TheatreBend, ORWebsite
Feb 22 2017McAllister Hall at Berry CollegeRome, GA
Feb 19 2017Charleston Music HallCharleston, SCWebsite
Feb 15 2017Frozen River Film FestivalWinona, MNWebsite
Feb 3 2017Sherbino TheaterRidgway, CO
Jan 27 2017ASUNM Southwest Film CenterAlbuquerque, NM
Jan 19 2017Trustees TheaterSavannah, GAWebsite
Jan 6 2017Our Lady of the Snows CenterAlta, UTWebsite
Nov 19 2016Durango Arts CenterDurango, CO
Nov 18 2016The KampongMiami, FLWebsite
Nov 5 2016Big Picture TheaterWaitsfield, VTWebsite
Nov 4 2016WaterColor's Marina Park AmphitheaterSanta Rosa Beach, FLWebsite
Oct 23 2016The Warehouse at FTCFairfield, CTWebsite
Oct 21 2016USFS Auditorium at Mammoth Lakes Welcome CenterMammoth Lakes, CAWebsite
Oct 21 2016Gannett AuditoriumSaratoga Springs, NYWebsite
Oct 8 2016El Morro TheatreGallup, NM
Oct 1 20161932 Criterion TheatreBar Harbor, MEWebsite
Sep 23 2016Ojai Valley SchoolOjai, CAWebsite
Aug 24 2016Wheeler Opera HouseAspen, COWebsite
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