The Backup Tapes from Moon and Mars
In Pennsylvania, eteam discovered the towns Mars and Moon that seem to be simulations, scale models for testing whether people could live on other planets. With a cultural anthropologist’s perspective they view the dark and sunny side of human society from the future: ‘This is no barbershop, this is the last undercover recharge center for humanity.’ A melancholy portrait of U.S. society’s archetype. See also Phire in Signals: How to Survive…
Also in this combined programme
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A Million Miles Away
Relationship drama’s apotheosis to the beat of a heavy metal anthem from the 1980s. Melancholy as a survival strategy. -
The Voice Thief
When an opera singer loses her voice during an argument with her husband, she threatens to leave him if he doesn’t put things right by…
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 34'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
