Shifting Baselines

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Is Boca Chica, Texas, a laboratory of interstellar future or a depressing backstage of techno capitalism and techno fetishism? Julien Elie, a Canadian director who made engaging documentaries about organised crime, such as ‘Dark Suns’ (2018) and ‘The White Guard’ (2023), demonstrates, with cold precision, typical of his works, how the expansion of Elon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX, brutally redefines the functioning of a local community and nature. The film shows how it shapes – or rather misshapes – the approach of people to Earth and space.