In this project I want to explore a question of Life, through the lens of the Voyager Space programme.

Like other elements of space exploration Voyager could be seen as one of humanity’s greatest achievements.

On 14th February 1990 Voyager 1 turned back to face earth from the edge of the solar system and took an image, this image has become known as the pale blue dot. In it we earth looks insignificant, barely noticeable above the background noise.

Attached to both of the Voyager crafts hull is a golden disk, a message to the cosmos from the inhabitants of earth, a message that might outlast all of us.

The two Voyager probes sent back (and continue to send back) huge amounts of data. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, the very edges of the solar system. The Voyager probes have taught us huge amounts about the solar system and our place in it.

But did anyone ask the probes if they wanted to go?

There are films and documentaries that cover and celebrate the people and achievements, this film will attempt to experiment with taking to point of view of voyager. Cold, battered by radiation, slowly running out of power, lost, lonely, bored.

This film will be an experimental exploration of these ideas, casting Voyager 1 as Mavin the Paranoid Android.