A 42-minute audio-visual experience presented by world renowned musical polymath Steven Wilson, The Overview takes the listener on a Kubrickian journey into the endless darkness of outer space via a breathtakingly eclectic new progressive rock opus.
The Overview is based on the overview effect where astronauts who upon seeing the Earth from space undergo a transformative cognitive shift. Some experience an overwhelming appreciation and perception of the planet's beauty, while others see the Earth truly for what it is – insignificant and lost in the vastness of space, the human race as its primary, troubled species.
As a reflection of that, longtime Wilson collaborator Miles Skarin's film presents a constantly evolving series of images documenting the vastness of space and the almost imperceptibly tiny part of it that the human race occupies.