Ambition short film really about ESA Rosetta probe
Unfortunately, the intriguing trailer for Ambition from director Tomek Bagiński that popped up a little over a week ago wasn’t for a full-length movie making its way to theaters. Instead, the trailer previewed a short film starring Game of Thrones star Aiden Gillen (Littlerfinger) as an “enigmatic Master” who’s teaching his apprentice (Aisling Franciosi) something about nanotechnology, and the project was funded by the ESA (European Space Agency) to bring attention to their Rosseta robotic space probe.
Now, the short is available in its entirety, and you can watch it after the jump! It’s pretty fantastic.
Here’s a more in-depth plot synopsis for Ambition than the one we got initially:
The short film tells the story of one of the most important space exploration endeavours of this decade. Just as Gillen’s enigmatic Master encourages Franciosi’s Apprentice to seek out the key to life amidst a rugged alien landscape, ESA has been on a decade-long ambitious journey of its own, to unlock the mysteries of a comet and the origins of our Solar System with its Rosetta spacecraft, hundreds of millions of kilometres from Earth.
AMBITION complements the ongoing communication about Rosetta and adds a “human dimension” to the scientific and technological achievements of the mission, which include curiosity, drive and ambition.
So, while the project didn’t turn out to be the full-length film I’d hoped, it is a pretty great tie-in to a real-world space probe. Not a bad way to invest interest in the ESA and space exploration!