WSTX Channel 68 Presents: THE PLANET FORGOT US

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A Literary Terrarium Broadcast Event


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Tonight on WSTX Channel 68, the station with a bent antenna and no board oversight:

Three films about the human species attempting to flee itself, only to discover the escape hatch opens into another version of the same room.

THE LITERARY TERRARIUM VERSION

Inside the glass:

Soil layer:
Sand from a dead future. Airport carpet fibers. Broken magnetic tape. Moon dust scraped from a fake prophet’s boot.

Plant life:
One desert weed, one space fungus, one airport fern watered with cassette-deck tears.

Objects buried halfway in the moss:
A cracked video monitor. A cosmonaut helmet full of ants. A hotel keycard from a city that never existed. A paperback anthropology text with every page replaced by dream transcripts.

Specimen label:

THE PLANET FORGOT US
A sealed ecosystem containing three cinematic attempts to explain why mankind, when given technology, myth, distance, music, deserts, and outer space, immediately invents longing again.

WSTX CHANNEL 68 PROGRAMMING BLOCK

6:00 AM

Until the End of the World

The Long Distance Dream Sickness

A woman travels through a planet-wide nervous breakdown while technology learns to record dreams and humanity becomes addicted to its own inner weather.

WSTX advisory:
Contains airports, sunglasses, end-times pop, satellite melancholy, and the creeping suspicion that every screen is actually a small coffin for attention.

Station bumper:

“Coming up next: love, data, exhaustion, and the longest music video ever smuggled into the ruins of cinema.”

10:45 AM

On the Silver Globe

The Moon Builds a Church Out of Trauma

Human beings leave Earth, land elsewhere, and almost immediately reinvent myth, hierarchy, sex panic, sacred violence, and the need to scream into the wind while wearing magnificent rags.

WSTX advisory:
Contains damaged prophecy, lunar anthropology, religious fever, sand in the soul, and the feeling that the film itself was found injured in a government archive.

Station bumper:

“We now return to our special report: Escape From Earth, Failure To Escape Humanity.”

1:30 PM

Fata Morgana

Earth After the Humans, Narrated by a Desert Mirage

The planet is filmed as though a baffled alien camera crew arrived too late and found only dunes, wreckage, rituals, music, and evidence that we had once mistaken survival for destiny.

WSTX advisory:
Contains mirages, creation-myth residue, landscape hypnosis, and several moments where the desert appears to be thinking about you personally.

Station bumper:

“This is not a documentary. This is the planet’s out-of-office message.”

THE TRILOGY ARC

Film Human Error Cosmic Result
Until the End of the World We tried to record dreams The self became a surveillance state
On the Silver Globe We tried to start over Myth followed us in the luggage
Fata Morgana We tried to explain the Earth The Earth declined comment

HOST INTRO BY DAX SILVER

Good morning, insomniacs, archivists, dishwashers of the apocalypse, and viewers who left the television on mute while making coffee strong enough to restart a dead satellite.

Today, WSTX Channel 68 offers no comfort, no plot assistance, and no guarantee that mankind comes off well. This is The Planet Forgot Us, a three-film terrarium of failed escape. Wenders gives us the image-virus. Żuławski gives us the myth-virus. Herzog gives us the planet after the fever breaks.

Watch closely. Or don’t. Let it leak into the room. Some films are not watched. They are installed. 📺

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THE PLANET FORGOT US

WSTX Channel 68, Sunday Morning Into Afternoon

A broadcast block for viewers who believe science fiction should not explain the future, but stain the furniture with it.

This is cinema as post-human weather report. Wenders turns the globe into a haunted mixtape. Żuławski turns space into a medieval panic attack. Herzog turns Earth into a holy accident viewed through heat shimmer.

Together, they form a trilogy of failed exits:

You cannot escape through technology.
You cannot escape through space.
You cannot escape through landscape.

Wherever you go, the human animal arrives first, already unpacking its gods, cameras, wounds, and bad ideas.

Recommended viewing conditions:
Mute optional. Coffee required. Curtains half-open. One object from childhood placed near the screen for protection. 🪐

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