Movie Substrate · Film
Space Chimps (2008)
★ 5.0 · 484 ratings on TMDB
From one of the primates that brought you Shrek.
When an unmanned space shuttle crashes on an uncharted planet, a trio of astronaut chimpanzees are launched by NASA into a wormhole to investigate.
DirectorKirk DeMicco
The emergence reading
In Space Chimps, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “space chimp mission”. The story fights on E6/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing agency, authority, exploration, funding.
↷ animalsUSagencyauthorityexplorationfunding
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Ooops! Noah Is Gone... (2015)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic flood ark
Two Brothers (2004)consciousness in animals · tiger captivity
A Bug's Life (1998)consciousness in animals · insect colony
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)consciousness in animals · ape-war
Madagascar (2005)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic animal world
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic canine worldSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Priest (2011)consciousness in monsters · authority
Damsel (2024)consciousness in monsters · authority
Star Trek (2009)consciousness in aliens · authority, exploration
Serenity (2019)consciousness in machines · agency, authority
Doctor Strange (2016)consciousness in aliens · authority
The Lego Movie (2014)consciousness in objects · authority
