ROGUE OBJECTS
Merging cutting-edge astrophysics with techniques of arthouse film, contemporary animation, and live performance, Rogue Objects is an uplifting immersive experience for dome cinema that invites us to approach darkness with curiosity and wonder, without fear.
Rogue Objects is based on emerging astrophysics research regarding brown dwarfs, a lesser-known class of celestial bodies that are neither planets nor stars, but somewhere in between with regards to mass and brightness. Some brown dwarfs orbit stars, like planets do; other brown dwarfs host planets, like stars do. Brown dwarfs emit their light primarily in the infrared, just outside the wavelengths we can see with our own eyes.
And whereas stars have infused every aspect of our culture for millennia — art, love songs, poetry, social structures, divination — we’ve barely broken ground on our cultural relationship with brown dwarfs.
In Development
Created & Directed by Janani Balasubramanian
Produced by Alysa Nahmias, Alyssa Simmons
Music by Sultana Isham
A Janani Balasubramanian & AJNA Films production
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Rogue Objects has received seed support from the HERE Arts Center, MacArthur Foundation, Sundance Institute, Jerome Foundation, Opera America, and Camargo Foundation. It’s based on the research of the brown dwarf astrophysics group at the American Museum of Natural History.
