ABSTRACT
Navajo lmmaker Nanobah Becker’s The 6th World: An Origin Story (2012) is unmistakably science ction. Made in collaboration with Independent Television Service’s Futurestates series, the short lm takes place on a spaceship piloted by scientists on a mission to colonize new worlds. Becker’s characters wear insignia-stamped uniforms, high-tech monitors count the number of days to their destination, and doors with vacuum seals whoosh and whir as they open and close. Becker mentions that her own science ction inspiration was Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and The 6th World reects that lm in its vintage-sixties set design as well as its theme of space travel.
