London Short Film Festival

A programme looking at the role of space exploration in experimental film, featuring archive footage by pioneers of early cinema alongside animation and contemporary artists’ moving image works.

In parallel with the Cosmonauts’ exhibition currently at the Science Museum, we investigate cinematic reactions to outer space, from the first footage filmed through a telescope to contemporary works by artists interested in topics such as gravity and its loss, space exploration and representation of the limitless. Programme curated by Giulia Saccogna. 

The screening will be introduced by Giulia Saccogna, programme curator, and Dr. Mike Allen, space expert and Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London.

Film running order:

Eclipse of the Moon
Topical Budget 530-1 UK, 1921, 2 mins

Voyage autour d’une étoile
Gaston Velle France, 1906, 5 min

Les Astronautes
Walerian Borowczyk & Chris Marker France, 1959, 12 min

Synchronisation
Rimas Sakalauskas Lithuania, 2009, 8 min

Shadow Sites II
Jananne Al-Ani UK, 2011, 9 min

A Trip to the Planets
uncredited USA, 1920, 16 min

Moon
Christian Volckman & Raphael Thierry France, 2013, 4 min

Eclipse
Jeanne Liotta US, 2005, 3 min

Brilliant Noise
Semiconductor UK, 2006, 6 min

Particles in Space
Len Lye US, 1979, 4 min

http://www.micromacrofilm.org/a-cosmonauts-trip.html