1.2 Million Pieces of Junk Are Above Your Head Right Now
Réalisation Gyuho Park
South Korea · 2026 · 0 min 32 s · Documentary
Film soumis au OnShow International Film Festival 2026Synopsis
How much junk is above your head right now? More than 1.2 million fragments larger than one centimetre are in orbit, and only about 40,000 of them can be tracked. At roughly 28,000 km/h a chip of paint can scar a space station window, and debris striking debris makes more debris. In thirty-two seconds the film follows one question to the chain reaction that could one day make part of low Earth orbit unusable.
À propos du film
The film is built from figures published by the European Space Agency. The ESA Space Environment Report 2025 models more than 1.2 million objects over one centimetre in orbit, of which only around 40,000 are catalogued and tracked; an ESA collision fragment recorded in 2016 left a 7 mm pit in the ISS Cupola window. At an orbital velocity of about 7.8 km/s — some 28,000 km/h, close to ten times a rifle bullet — even millimetre-scale debris carries the energy of a projectile. Every collision produces new fragments, and that cascade is known as Kessler syndrome. The film was made with AI-generated imagery; the numbers are real and sourced.
Réalisation
Gyuho Park (b. 1993, South Korea) is a filmmaker and founder working with AI-driven data storytelling. He created and runs nowhere.coords - What If?, a short-form series that turns hypothetical questions — space debris, collapsing food chains, war scenarios — into visual explanations grounded in published data, directing the script, fact-checking and edit himself. He also runs IF KOREA (ifkr.now) and the YouTube channel Stock Anatomy, where the same method of explicit assumptions and simulation is applied to security, disaster and industry subjects.
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OnShow International Film Festival — Inaugural Edition · 2026