SYNOPSIS
Planet Earth is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and a crew of five friends decide to build their own spaceship out of there. On a quest to search for Club Splendida, a rumoured utopia in the depths of outer space, the team hopes to find “the answer to life, the universe, and everything”. Soon they find out the biggest challenges are on their way and not what they expect.
CAST
LEE STEVENS GAY - Gay
ELIZABETH GÖRAN - Shirin
JOEY STEFFENS -
Samuel
LEO
- Daphne
MIZU SUGAI -
Yaya
CREW
Director, Writer, Producer - CAIO AMADO SOARES
Co-producer - PAUL
NIEDERMAYER
Direction Assistance
-
ERNEST AH
Director of Photography - ZARA ZANDIEH
Lighting - DAN DANSEN, NADJA KRÜGER
Sound
Recording - GIZEM ORUÇ, ELIS HANNIKAINEN
Editing - NADJA KRÜGER, CAIO SOARES
Costume Design -
MICHEL WAGENSCHÜTZ
Prop Design - HELENA RIBAS, NANS LEIDING
Music - MOLLY NILSSON, OLAF
TARANCZEWSKI, MAXINE FRANKS
Sound Design - MAXINE FRANKS
Sound Mixing - JOCHEN JEZUSSEK
VFX
&
Color Grading - CAIO SOARES
STATEMENT
Beyond a quest into the depths of outer space, Club Splendida is also an
exploration into the
dynamics of collective structures, through a queer-camp science-fiction web series format.
Strongly
based on the principles of democratic structuring proposed by Jo Freeman on The Tyranny of
Structurelessness (1970), it is an attempt to explore the successes and shortcomings of this
proposal, when friendships, insecurities, attraction (and lack thereof ) get in the way of a shared
vision.
Ultimately, small collectivities serve as examples that reflect the dynamics of a larger -
global? - societal structure and vice-versa.
SCREENINGS/EXHIBITIONS
• 05.19 - 65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen - Oberhausen,
Germany
• 06.19 -
Raumerweiterungshalle - Berlin, Germany
• 09.19 - Stadtwerkstadt: STWST48x5 STAY
UNFINISHED - Linz, Austria
• 09.19 - 6th Festival de Cine Radical - La Paz,
Bolivia
• 10.19 - 9th Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival - Durban, South Africa
•
11.19 - 29th Rio de Janeiro Int. Short Film Festival Curta Cinema - Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
•
01.20 - silent green Kulturquartier: STRANGE THINGS - Berlin, Germany
• 01.20 - 9th
PembeHayat KuirFest/PinkLife QueerFest - Istanbul, Turkey
• 02.20 - Zeiss-Großplanetarium:
Retina - Berlin, Germany
• 08.20 - 17th IndieLisboa International Film Festival - Lisbon,
Portugal
• 12.20 - Online Conference On Transversality - in Practice and Research -
London,
United Kingdom
• 02.21 - 03.21 - nGbK: Interflugs 30: Feral Methods,
Berlin, Germany
• 10.22 - 02.23 - Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, Galeria Quadrum: Novas
Novas Cartas Portuguesas,
Lisboa, Portugal
• 08.23 - Schokofabrik Frauenzentrum, Berlin, Germany
• 10.23 -
Kulturhaus Villa Sträuli, Winterthur, Switzerland
• 01.25 - Wolf Kino, Berlin, Germany
SPLENDID PRESS
• Article on Visão magazine about the exhibition "Novas Novas Cartas Portuguesas" at Galeria Quadrum here.
