Free film screening of this 1970's environmentally themed science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumball and starring Bruce Dern.

Silent Running is part of Dublin City Council Arts Office Urban Plant Life Programme of events exploring and highlighting nature in the city. It accompanies the current exhibition at The Lab Gallery, Supernature by Linda Shevlin and coincides with National Heritage Week.

As this science fiction classic opens, botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) has spent eight years aboard the space freighter “Valley Forge” preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth under huge geodesic domes. When he receives orders to destroy the project and return home, Lowell rebels and hijacks the freighter, while plunging the craft into the gaseous Rings of Saturn. From that moment on, he has only the trees, the gardens and two “Drone” robots Huey and Dewey to keep him company on his greatest adventure of all.

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