SXSW Film Review: ‘Prospect’

From the honey-gold sunlight that spills amber-thick through a canopy of century-old trees to the dancing specks of iridescent pollen that swirl in the foreground of nearly every scene, “Prospect” has one thing that most indie sci-fi movies don’t, and which any human desperately needs when traveling to unfamiliar worlds: atmosphere.

Cleverly expanded from a short film of the same name, co-writer-directors Zeek Earl and Christopher Caldwell’s low-budget debut offers thinking audiences an economy ticket to a distant moon, scrapping most of the usual in-flight entertainment in favor of a lean excursion to a scenic space outpost.In short, what Earl and Caldwell have done here is the antithesis to your typical interstellar blockbuster, from “2001: A Space Odyssey” to “Passengers,” where everything looks new and sleek, as if it were designed by the engineers at Apple.

“Prospect” takes place on the fringes of such stories, long after

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