S|R ::: CALENDAR
Tues 17th-Wed 18th ::: The Independent-Space Programme
SpaceKraft Kino
SpaceKraft Kino: Double-Bill
HOLD 1 ::: 17th 19:00-23:00
[Film Screenings] - Tickets
Two feature documentaries portraying the recent histories of independent art projects emerging from the underground, with links and historic parallels to Spacecraft. The films explore the role of charismatic figures within complex collective ventures, and the challenges and paradoxes facing alternative projects claiming space and negotiating an ongoing existence within a wider world and economy.
Invisible Circus: No Dress Rehearsal [99] Dir Naomi Smyth
Charismatic ringmaster, Doug Francis leads his anarchist circus from margins to mainstream with the motto 'If it's not impossible, we're not interested'. The 3-year span of the film takes them from chaotic squat crew to licensed building managers with huge show budgets - via rotting garages, crumbling cathedrals and finally a takeover of Bristol's ex-police HQ. Relationships in the close team reveal the gain and the pain of success, but 3 years on they're still working for free. Profit or loss?
Second film [TBC]
What would you like to see? Suggestions are welcome at spacecraftireland@gmail.com
Considering these films:
Aufgestanden in Ruinen - Projekt Tacheles [97] Dir Klaus Tuschen
Lost in Vagueness [85} Dir Sofia Olins
Tuesday 17th :::
SpaceKraft Kino: FEATURE
HOLD 1 ::: 19:00-21:30
[Film Screenings] - Tickets
The SpaceKraft Kino programme closes with a documentary about one of the most high-stakes and ambitious projects ever to emerge from the counterculture: the replica closed ecosystem of Biosphere 2. The story starts with a theatre ship, explores the complex realities of collaborative utopian ventures with a wider world, and concludes with the appearance of Steve Bannon, as the capitalist saviour / ‘monetiser’ of the ragged remains of the project.
Spaceship Earth Biosphere 2 [114] Dir by Matt Wolf
Spaceship Earth is the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2. The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that it was nothing more than a cult. The bizarre story is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers can potentially reimagine a new world.
Wednesday 18th :::