The Archival Futures of Outer Space Film Quartet
Founded by Ceridwen Dovey & Rowena Potts in 2022, the Archival Futures Collective makes experimental films about human and more-than-human relationships to nature on Earth and off-Earth, inspired by library and museum archives/research materials/collections.
The Archival Futures of Outer Space Film Quartet is a suite of experimental films exploring ethics and emotion in outer space. The films have been selected for screening at Pariscience International Science Film Festival in Paris, Imagine Science Film Festival in New York City, Mimesis Documentary Festival in Colorado, St Kilda Film Festival in Melbourne, Antenna Documentary Film Festival in Sydney, and SXSW Sydney Film Festival, among many others. Memorabilia won Best Documentary at the 2024 Australian Women's Short Film Festival & Best Film (National category) at the 2024 Canberra Short Film Festival.
MOONRISE (2021, 11 minutes)
The Moon's surface may soon be subject to permanent human occupation. Do we want to stand by silently as irreparable damage is done to our sister satellite? What might happen if we listened to what the Moon has to say?
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MUSCA (2022, 5 minutes)
A visitor from another planet wonders about the human practice of naming star constellations after particular things.
MEMORABILIA (2023, 16 minutes)
A daughter mourns the loss of her father, a passionate collector of space memorabilia, as she falls under the sway of the 'flown' space objects in her inheritance.
Winner - Best Documentary at the 2024 Australian Women's Short Film Festival
Winner - Best Film (National category) at the 2024 Canberra Short Film Festival
Shortlisted for Best Documentary at the 2023 St Kilda Film Festival
REQUIEM (2023, 16 minutes)
Real astronauts who have spent time on the International Space Station or Mir Space Station (including Dorin Prunariu, Yi So-yeon, Claudie Haignere, Paolo Nespoli, and Cady Coleman) perform a sonnet cycle that laments the imagined future loss of the ISS when it is deorbited within the next decade. Parts of it will burn up in the atmosphere, and the rest will end up in pieces on the ocean floor at Point Nemo, the spacecraft cemetery in the remote Pacific.
© Image courtesy of Andrea Valtolina