What does it mean to live on this planet right now?

That’s the question the daylong film festival Radiant Blue Marble will ask and ponder through short films by six Colorado arts, film and academic organizations at the Ent Center for the Arts. The event will conclude with a screening of the 1964 political satire film “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” as part of the CO150 Film Festival.

“When five organizations agree to share a screen for a day, that is a statement about what art can do,” said Joy Armstrong, director and curator of the Galleries of Contemporary Art at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. “We are asking our community to sit with the most urgent and beautiful questions of our time: What is the reciprocal relationship between our planetary home and ourselves? And who gets to tell that story?” 

The program runs from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, with “Dr. Strangelove” at 7 p.m., at 5225 N. Nevada Ave. A full-day pass is $20 and includes a pizza lunch. Individual tickets are also available: $15 for film programs or $10 for “Dr. Strangelove.” Go online to gocadigital.org/special-events/2026radiant-blue-marble and colorado150film.com.

GOCA will open the festival with three films that explore transformation, reclamation and resilience, including the 19-minute “Señales de aliento (Vital Signs),” about the persistence of life in motion, directed by Kimbra Smith and Clay Bowen. Smith will hold a Q&A afterward.

Youth Documentary Academy will show four short films by its young filmmakers about belonging, identity and the world they’re inheriting. A panel discussion with the filmmakers and local poet Ashley Cornelius will follow.

After lunch, Rocky Mountain Women’s Film will screen three films, including the 47-minute “Fire Tower,” by Tova Krentzman, a look at solitude, the landscape and the act of watching over something wild.

Independent Film Society of Colorado will bring three films about ambition, stillness and sustainability, including the eight-minute “Rest,” by Andrew Holzschuh, and the 10-minute “Solar Neighbor,” by Austin Cole.

University of Colorado’s NEST Studio for the Arts, a program dedicated to the intersection of nature, environment, science and technology through artistic practice, will present half a dozen short films and works by graduate and undergraduate filmmakers.