Screenwriting – I’m writing the screenplay for the CGI-documentary with working title “Knyahinya” of Ukrainian artist Letta Shtohryn and Austrian artist and researcher Daniela Brill Estrada.
In 1866, Europe’s largest meteorite fell in the Ukrainian Carpathians — then part of the Austrian Empire. Knyahinya’s well-witnessed fall inspired paintings, fiction, as well as scientific and speculative theories about the origin of life on Earth.
One theory suggested that it contained coral-like structures, which led to speculation about the origins of life on Earth stemming from outer space. This idea is part of a broader hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, and planetoids, as well as by spacecraft carrying unintended contamination by microorganisms, known as directed panspermia.
The project is supported by the Arts Council Malta and the Natural History Museum Vienna.