We Are Made of Stardust

This brief quote by the late Carl Sagan is wonderfully illustrated in the beautiful and poignant short film "Stardust," directed by Mischa Rozema of Amsterdam-based media company

PostPanic

. Using actual images from space exploration as well as CGI modeling, Stardust reminds us that everything we and the world around us are made of was created inside stars... and that, one day, our home star will once again free all that "stuff" back out into the Universe.

The film was made in memory of talented Dutch designer

Arjan Groot

, who died of cancer in July 2011 at the age of 39.

– Mischa Rozema, director

A truly stunning tribute.

See more about this

on PostPanic's Vimeo page.

(Credits after the jump.)

Credits: A PostPanic Production Written & directed by Mischa Rozema Produced by Jules Tervoort VFX Supervisor: Ivor Goldberg Associate VFX Supervisor: Chris Staves Senior digital artists: Matthijs Joor, Jeroen Aerts Digital artists: Marti Pujol, Silke Finger, Mariusz Kolodziejczak, Dieuwer Feldbrugge, Cara To, Jurriën Boogert Camera & edit: Mischa Rozema Production: Ania Markham, Annejes van Liempd Audio by Pivot Audio , Guy Amitai Featuring "Helio" by Ruben Samama Copyright 2013 Post Panic BV, All rights reserved