Category Archives: Space films and videos

Solar Sci-Fi, Space Arts, Space films and videos

Science fiction short films at Anthology Film Archives in NYC, Aug. 28th

An announcement from the The Philip K. Dick Film Festival:

Science Fiction Comes To Anthology Film Archives As The
Special Program For Newfilmmakers Series

The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival’s Director Curated The Highly Anticipated One-Night Only Event

Brooklyn, N.Y. August 13, 2013 – A night science fiction will be presented at Anthology Film Archives as part of the center’s NewFilmmakers series. Daniel Abella, the famed director of The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival led the curation for the momentous special program to be held on Wednesday, August 28. The one-night only lineup features four thrilling film shorts from the minds of talented filmmakers who showcase the infinite world of science fiction.

Special Program Schedule of Events
Wednesday, August 28 at 6:00 PM

SILENT THREAT: PRELUDE
By Aldo Romero
(2013, 15 Minutes)
A former reporter who came across a Roswell-type wreckage of a space craft in 1986 joins the social media site “Silent Threat” dedicated to UFO abductees to spread his message of extraterrestrial existence after years of censorship.

THE EXIT ROOM
By Todd Wiseman Jr.
(2013, 10 Minutes)
In 2021, imprisoned journalist Joseph Michaels faces government execution as he contemplates a desperate escape attempt in order to return to his wife and newborn.

MICROTIME
By Nir Yaniv
(2013, 15 Minutes)
Bernie Eckstein, a young physics PhD student is about to test the time machine he built out of the microwave oven in his kitchen. He sets a camera to document the experiment but the machine begins to jump into the future and he must stop it before things go too far.

THE HOUSE
By Marcia Goetsch
(2013, 15 Minutes)
A woman and an artificially intelligent house are shackled by their symbiotic relationship in world of the future.

The science fiction special program will lead an entire night of films as part of Anthology Film Archive’s NewFilmmakers series on Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003 beginning at 6pm. For more information including further scheduling and film listings please visit http://anthologyfilmarchives.org and always be sure to stay informed of all ongoing announcements from The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival on the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ThePhilipKDickFilmFestival and Twitter page at https://twitter.com/PhilipKDickFest.

For more information please contact:
Daniel Abella, Curator/Festival Director
Program Office: 917-362-9337
Email: info@thephilipkdickfilmfestival.com

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History, Space Collecting, Space films and videos

Space memorabilia inspires Disney’s Tomorrowland film

Robert Pearlman writes an interesting story that connects a “dusty old box” found in the Walt Disney archives with the Tomorrowland movie coming out in 2014 with George Clooney in a leading role: Disney’s ‘Tomorrowland’ movie inspired by space memorabilia – collectSPACE

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DIY space, Rockets, Space films and videos

Copenhagen Suborbitals: Video documentary about Sapphire rocket launch

Copenhagen Suborbitals has created a mini-documentary about the successful launch in June of their actively guided Sapphire rocket:

Caption:

This video is a documentary from the launch of the rocket “Sapphire” by Copenhagen Suborbitals in June 2013. The video shows our preparations and the launch itself – from all available camera angles – including footage from our surveillance airplane. The purpose of the mission was to test active guidance. This is a key element in the CS mission to launch a human into space. The guidance system was designed entirely by CS personnel and used a combination of inertial navigation and jet vanes for control. The guidance system oriented the vehicle at a point directly above the launch platform Sputnik to minimize downrange distance. It worked well, at burnout the vehicle was only 60 meters off target. Next CS will combine active guidance and a powerful liquid propellant rocket engine. The HEAT 2X rocket will be a two ton, space capable active guided liquid propellant rocket. Sapphire was the perfect predecessor of HEAT 2X.

http://youtu.be/kcF5xNrb3HA

Update: A new post from Kristian von Bengtson about upcoming space suit work with Cameron Smith and John Haslett: Last Minutes DIY Space Suit and Seat Preparations – Wired Science

Space films and videos

A list of 5 underrated sci-fi movie “masterpieces”

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I will have to track down the two of these that I have not seen: The Five Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Masterpieces – TIME.com

Solar Sci-Fi, Space films and videos

“Europa Report” opens in theaters

I’ve mentioned the new film Europa Report a few times here over the past several months. It is about a future privately funded mission to the Jupiter moon Europa and is done in a documentary, found-footage style. The mission is also depicted in a very scientifically rigorous manner, i.e. the film is of the rare “hard sci-fi” genre. It’s also in the Solar Sci-Fi category.

The film has been available in video on demand and on line for awhile but today it has been released to theaters. Here are some reviews:

Here’s a report on a panel discussion of the movie at the recent Comic Con event in Las Vegas: Talk of an icy moon at Vegas for Nerds – The Space Review.

The Europa Ventures LLC website is for the organization in the movie that ran the Europa mission.

Here is the trailer for the film:

More space and solar sci-fi film resources in the HobbySpace  movies section.