Texas-filmed doc laments the night sky lost to light pollution
In Hays County, where filmmaker Elizabeth Buckley resides, the night sky is vibrant, visible to the naked eye, full of wonder. Fifteen miles west, to San Marcos, where Buckley teaches at Texas State University, less so. And in nearby Austin, with its skyscrapers blazing light at all hours? Don’t bet on it.
We live in a light-distracted world – certainly in cities, but increasingly in our suburban and rural areas, too. Light pollution, which obscures the night sky, impacts animal migration, sleep patterns, and humans’ connection to the cosmos that has inspired storytellers from Carl Sagan and Joseph Campbell to the Ancient Greeks and the prehistoric artists in the Lascaux cave.
That last point is the one that seems to most interest Buckley, an Emmy, Peabody, and Gracie award-winning producer and writer. Her documentary,, draws an explicit connection between the stars and humans’ storytelling instincts, and assembles an array of folks to expound that connection, including a mythologist, an astronomer, and an astrophotographer.
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