Omega

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Pyramid Film and Video (PYR)

Complete Record: This film deals with the end of mankind on earth, prophesying man's liberation from his earthly bounds to roam the universe at will. By sending an "energy ray" to the sun and harnessing its solar power, man is able to make an evolutionary leap. The film can be used to explore the outer limits of the concepts of death, evolution, the after life and the future of mankind. Various different shots of outer space landscape. Then we return to earth to show silhouettes of different objects against the setting/rising sun. (trees, grass, buildings, skylines...) Then a stream of laser light projects itself from earth into outer space. It travels around and eventually makes it to the sun. Back on earth everything looks like business as usual. The colors are intensified and some shots are in negative. (clouds rolling past a silhouette of a tree, silhouette of a human figure, etc.) Then things get all psychedelic. Red silhouettes of human figures wittiness a burst of light and tug at strange bands on their wrists. Then they stare at awe into the trippy space sky (cue orchestra and singers). Cool graphics!