HYPERBOREA

2021

Hyperborea is a 2-minute abstract science fiction film about a mythical planet in a dangerous region of space, based on a Greek myth and inspired by William Gibson’s Hinterlands, Arkady Brothers’ Roadside Picnic and Arthur C. Clarke’s The Sentinel.

I’m a massive fan of fiction that explores the limits of human understanding, where a ‘something’ is so abstract and mysterious that it becomes a mirror of our psyche, reflecting our hopes and fears.

SYNOPSIS

Hyperborea is a jewel in the known cosmos. A paradise world rich in rare precious metals and valuable minerals and home to the rarest of things: intelligent life. Many, though, question its existence.

Hyperborea is hidden away, somewhere in the Riphean Cluster, a dangerous void of space blighted by the savage cosmic winds of a trillion black super-suns. It is so hostile that it has never been successfully surveyed, leaving it labelled “mare incognitum” on maps—unknown sea.

Over the 50 decades since its discovery, millions of space farers have entered the cluster to discover its secrets, but only seven have ever returned. All are either dead or crazy, and all carry some small artefact indicating the existence of a planet. A place that has become known as Hyperborea.

TECHNICAL

The animation was created in Chaotica, a hard-to-master but amazing fractal generator. The images and video you can produce are so abstract. Perfect for exploring the unknown.