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mishaps in spacetime

ca. 12', experimental fiction, Germany/Portugal, 2024


synopsis

Doubt creeps in as Cosmo, a space traveller, addresses his gender identity. In need of clarity and change, he wants to risk crossing the Butterfly Nebula. His spaceship, on the other hand, has a personality of her own. Cosmo will need to negotiate change with a certain loss of control.


Film still 2 of Mishaps in Spacetime: The steering joystick stands on the cuntpit’s counter. In front of it is the glass window, showing stars overlayed with a diffuse reflection of the joystick and the room, most noticeably monitors with bright colours. Film still 3 of Mishaps in Spacetime: Cosmo looks back at the joystick, with an expression of surprise. A wall of the cuntpit is missing. Film still 4 of Mishaps in Spacetime: Cosmo and Jesse have an interaction, while Jesse prepares her jetski against a landscape of dunes. Film still 5 of Mishaps in Spacetime: Cosmo travels in an dinghy boat, steering with the same joystick that had steered the previous spaceship. The boat flies over a beach landscape with wrecks along the shore, into a pink sunset. Film stills of Mishaps in Spacetime

cast

CAIO AMADO - Cosmo
JOEY STEFFENS - Jesse
IMOGEN HEATH - The Spaceship

crew

A film by CAIO AMADO SOARES
in artistic collaboration with MICHEL WAGENSCHÜTZ
Writer & Producer - CAIO AMADO SOARES
Co-direction on set - NADJA KRÜGER, MICHEL WAGENSCHÜTZ
Director of Photography - NADJA KRÜGER
Sound Recording - PHILIPP FRÖHLICH, DENIZ ŞIMŞEK
Editing - MICHEL WAGENSCHÜTZ & CAIO AMADO SOARES
Art Direction - CAIO AMADO SOARES, MICHEL WAGENSCHÜTZ, HELENA RIBAS
Backdrop Design - CAIO AMADO SOARES
Costume Design - MICHEL WAGENSCHÜTZ
Prop Design - HELENA RIBAS
Sound Design & Music - MAXINE FRANKS
Sound Mixing - JOCHEN JEZUSSEK
VFX & Color Grading - CAIO AMADO SOARES
Script Consultants - PHILIPP FRÖHLICH, NADJA KRÜGER, MICHEL WAGENSCHÜTZ
Catering - CLAIRE EGAN
Process Witches - LEE STEVENS, ERNEST AH, PHILIPP FRÖHLICH

artist's statement

Mishaps in Spacetime zooms in to hear a chaotic plenary discussion within its main character, accompanying him through his transition. His spaceship, symbolising his body, is the stage where gender trouble meets self-discovery and its limits, unleashing the fear associated with change and loss. Through humor and self-reflection, the (anti-)hero's flaws are laid bare in an increasingly disjointed environment, marked by a "broken" aesthetic. Beyond its personal narrative, Mishaps in Spacetime is a film about anxiety and isolation in a world driven by competition rather than collaboration, where change happens faster and faster.

Mishaps in Spacetime is a queer speculative short fiction film inspired in Stanislaw Lem's Star Diaries, Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea and Vilém Flusser's Vampyrotheutis Infernalis.


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