Screening

Billy Sassi - 'The Battle from Outer Space'

25 Jul 2021 – 14 Aug 2021

Regular hours

Monday
10:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
10:00 – 18:00

Timezone: Europe/London

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Hosted by: Looking Forward

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The Battle from Outer Space is a product of a dual experience of lockdown and the current pandemic – both in terms of the imposed constraints on mental and practical capacities, but also the warped possibilities provided by the expanse of time. The discomfort of facing the uncertainty of ‘purpose’ in a space of alienation is reflected directly into Billy’ Sassi's film, where two spacemen are stranded on a distant planet while a war rages back at home.
They wait to be retrieved and returned to Earth but can't seem to make contact with their colleagues back at the base. Our two unnamed spacemen spend their time expressing discontent at their idleness, playing unknown board games with space rocks and role-playing their imagined part in the war. Humour is a key component that results from these two apparent dissonant planes – of everyday familiarity, and the complete unknown.

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Katerina Matheson

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Billy Sassi

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