The Astronauts' Bodies

CINEMASCOPE / 5.1 SOUND / COLOUR

Experimental fictional feature film

The film is a mixture of sci-fi noir, coming-of-age social drama and psychedelic experimental film. “The Astronauts’ Bodies” explores the romanticized idea of lightness and zero gravity, as a strange and paradoxical collective desire to overcome Earth’s gravity, which is felt as a sort of heavy bond that pulls one down. It’s a poetic film about the beauty of the decaying body, the effects of zero-gravity, and the collective dream of going to space.

When his two children, Anton and Linda, leave the house after graduation, Michael stops taking care of his body. Anton sacrifices his body for a bed rest study at a space-center, to offer scientists ways to see how the body adapts to weightlessness, while Linda seeks her first sexual experience.

„Die Körper der Astronauten develops a wonderfully quiet undertow - with enigmatic depth. (...) In an aesthetic sense, her work is already one of the most innovative competition films of this festival year. It varies in between uncontrolledness, fragility and paralysis.“ - Kino-Zeit.de, Simon Hauck in kino-zeit during Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival

http://die-koerper-der-astronauten.de/

Cast
Lars Rudolph, Zita Aretz, Béla Gabor Lenz, Luzie Nadjafi, Britta Thie

Crew
Director & Writer - Alisa Berger
Assistant Director - Peter Haas
Director of Photography - Bine Jankowski
Visual Effects - Peter Anlauf
Editing - Alisa Berger, Yana Höhnerbach, Gesa Hille
Sound Design - Jonathan Kastl
Sound Mixing - Judith Nordbrock
Music - Leonard Huhn und Christian Lorenzen, Ron Hofmann
Art Director & Costume - Santiago Alvarez
Line Producer - Robert Schäfer & Darius Cernota
Professors KHM - Frank Döhmann, Katrin Schlösser, Julia Scher
Funded by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW

Distributed by CMFDC - Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre