Space is da place

Space is the da place reivews

Dark Cell Dir: Jean Michel Tari.

A lovely short horror comedy bringing the classic irreverence and genre bending of some of the best Bande Dessinne, as elements of Lockout, The Thing, and Spirou blend in a strategic heist of orbital proportions. Replete with tricks, twists, and fully committed to show not tell. I would say the film has been laddled with a sting that weakens the tale but nonetheless, A great way to spend half an hour

Lost in the Sky: Simon Oster

Made without CGI and yet holding that pixar lamp in front of it to shine the way. Lost in the sky and our plucky Aspirational hero. Oster is able to bring all the Emotes to the fore of this film and given the amount of practical labour that must have been put into it. It totally fulfils a hero’s journey in 12 minutes when some Marvels take a trilogy. 

Fracture; Jon K jones.

 Black Astronauts hold a special place in society. Martin Luther King  convinced Nichelle Nichols of her importance in keeping the role of Uhura . Not long after Gil Scot-Heron recorded ‘Whitey on the moon’. In less than ten minutes Jon K. Jones Takes these polarities and explores them with great editing and a superb performance. Is this a story of an injured astronaut in a future where the adversity of racism is a motivator as something to overcome like his own injuries. Or a patient mentally destabilised by ongoing racial inequality he is retreating to a new planet in his mind? A poetic exploration of inner and outer space.

Defining Humanity. Daniel Code.

 I looked after my folks during the pandemic. The other day I tried to get my dad to stop fidgeting while doing his blood pressure. It took half an hour. He was fine , mine after explaining how the tube should lay on his arm…well this isn’t about me. This is about Mia, looking after her ill father over decades, her mother has passed and working against the prejudices around her and the far more limited resources of her blue collar life to get a scholarship into the space programme. A great character portrait of how there is no single issue that can limit a person, and how our sense of duty and legacy to our heritage and parents conflicts with ambition and hope they have for their children’s destiny and future. One learns from the past by letting it go. riveting.