KATERYNA SAZoNOVA
2389: COMING HOME
2389: Coming Home is a sci-fi short film. Two humans, a scientist and a soldier from Martian colony, come to Earth destroyed by climate change and resource wars, to find out if it is livable once again; during the research they decide to alter their findings and prevent repopulation.
Kateryna Sazonova is a Ukrainian film writer and director dedicated to raising awareness on the environmental crisis such as climate change and pollution. Kateryna is currently a student at Columbia College Chicago pursuing her MFA degree in Film and TV Directing. She utilizes fiction, documentary and mixed forms of the art of film, to create an emotional response in the audience and to motivate for action. She started working with sci-fi because she is convinced that this genre is perfect for the use as social commentary and bringing attention to critical issues.
2389: Coming Home is a sci-fi short film that explores the probable future of life on Earth in a scenario when climate change happens according to the worst of the scientific predictions and Earth becomes uninhabitable, humans must whether escape to a colony on Mars or stay on Earth to die. When the astronauts from the Martian colony come back to Earth centuries after the apocalypse, their findings pose a dilemma between preserving natural life on Earth or continuing to lead the consumerist lifestyle, knowing what the consequences will be and repeating history. It is Dune on a micro level and set in a forest. While on a larger scale the story highlights the possible consequences of the environmental crisis we are embarking on now, on an individual level it explores the theme of finding a place of one’s belonging.
