What do the Chrysler Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, the film Destination Moon and America's space program all have in common? They were each touched by the creative vision of a forgotten artist named Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986).
Chesley Bonestell’s mesmerizing depiction of "Saturn As Seen From Titan" became known as "the painting that launched a thousand careers." Told by the many people who were influenced by Chesley Bonestell or knew him personally and punctuated with rare interview footage of the artist himself, the documentary compellingly chronicles the life of a quiet, artistic visionary, whose architecture and space art continue to inspire us to reach for the stars.
An Audience Award winner at the Newport Beach Film Festival and named Best Documentary at Comic-Con San Diego, "Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future" is the first ever and only film about the mostly-forgotten San Francisco artist who not only gave the world a view of “Saturn as seen from Titan” but who survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to eventually help Willis Polk rebuild the city and also worked with Joseph B. Strauss on the Golden Gate Bridge!
“There isn't an artist that's painting today in the science fiction fantasy field who didn't start with Chesley Bonestell,” says legendary science fiction author Ray Bradbury in the first film ever made about the man dubbed “The Father of Space Art.”
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Chesley Bonestell’s mesmerizing depiction of "Saturn As Seen From Titan" became known as "the painting that launched a thousand careers." Told by the many people who were influenced by Chesley Bonestell or knew him personally and punctuated with rare interview footage of the artist himself, the documentary compellingly chronicles the life of a quiet, artistic visionary, whose architecture and space art continue to inspire us to reach for the stars.
An Audience Award winner at the Newport Beach Film Festival and named Best Documentary at Comic-Con San Diego, "Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future" is the first ever and only film about the mostly-forgotten San Francisco artist who not only gave the world a view of “Saturn as seen from Titan” but who survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to eventually help Willis Polk rebuild the city and also worked with Joseph B. Strauss on the Golden Gate Bridge!
“There isn't an artist that's painting today in the science fiction fantasy field who didn't start with Chesley Bonestell,” says legendary science fiction author Ray Bradbury in the first film ever made about the man dubbed “The Father of Space Art.”
What do the Chrysler Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, the film Destination Moon and America's space program all have in common? They were each touched by the creative vision of a forgotten artist named Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986).
Chesley Bonestell’s mesmerizing depiction of "Saturn As Seen From Titan" became known as "the painting that launched a thousand careers." Told by the many people who were influenced by Chesley Bonestell or knew him personally and punctuated with rare interview footage of the artist himself, the documentary compellingly chronicles the life of a quiet, artistic visionary, whose architecture and space art continue to inspire us to reach for the stars.
An Audience Award winner at the Newport Beach Film Festival and named Best Documentary at Comic-Con San Diego, "Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future" is the first ever and only film about the mostly-forgotten San Francisco artist who not only gave the world a view of “Saturn as seen from Titan” but who survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to eventually help Willis Polk rebuild the city and also worked with Joseph B. Strauss on the Golden Gate Bridge!
“There isn't an artist that's painting today in the science fiction fantasy field who didn't start with Chesley Bonestell,” says legendary science fiction author Ray Bradbury in the first film ever made about the man dubbed “The Father of Space Art.”
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Chesley Bonestell’s mesmerizing depiction of "Saturn As Seen From Titan" became known as "the painting that launched a thousand careers." Told by the many people who were influenced by Chesley Bonestell or knew him personally and punctuated with rare interview footage of the artist himself, the documentary compellingly chronicles the life of a quiet, artistic visionary, whose architecture and space art continue to inspire us to reach for the stars.
An Audience Award winner at the Newport Beach Film Festival and named Best Documentary at Comic-Con San Diego, "Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future" is the first ever and only film about the mostly-forgotten San Francisco artist who not only gave the world a view of “Saturn as seen from Titan” but who survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to eventually help Willis Polk rebuild the city and also worked with Joseph B. Strauss on the Golden Gate Bridge!
“There isn't an artist that's painting today in the science fiction fantasy field who didn't start with Chesley Bonestell,” says legendary science fiction author Ray Bradbury in the first film ever made about the man dubbed “The Father of Space Art.”
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