ANIARA (film 2018/2019)

ANIARA. Pella Kagerman (as Pella Kågerman), Hugo Lilja, directors, script, co-producers — script from the Harry Martison poem, q.v. Sweden, Denmark: Meta Film Stockholm, Meta Film, Viaplay (co-production) / Magnolia Pictures, USA distribution, 2018/2019. See IMDb for details of distribution. In Swedish, Spanish, and English[1][2] Note that there is also an ANIARA television musical production from 1960, in Swedish, directed by Arne Arnborn, libretto by Erik Lindegren.[3]

From the on-line review on IMDb by nikspitz

Aniara is based on a science fiction poem of the same name, written by the Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson. The title comes from ancient Greek meaning "sad, despairing," but the film celebrates beauty, melancholy, science and art in its own unique ways.

Refreshingly non formulaic in its treatment of a population of people cast together on an open ended journey into deep space.

nikspitz adds a quotation from the Gutenberg site (under "Structure and Content") which we'll quote directly from the Gutenberg introduction.[4]

One of the major themes explored is the nature and necessity of art, symbolised by the semi-mystical machinery of the Mima, who relieves the ennui of crew and passengers with scenes of far-off times and places, and whose operator is also the sometimes naïve main narrator. The rooms of Mima, according to Martinson, represent different kinds of life styles or forms of consciousness.

RDE, finishing, 28Sep19, with thanks to IC-R