OUT OF SPACE

Betacam SP, color, stereo,
Running time 11:00 minutes
Copyright 2004
Produced and Directed by Sabine Gruffat

Narration: Justin Friedman and Sabine Gruffat
Cast: Sabine Gruffat as the Space alien
Camera: Mary Billyou

Our postmodern world of the right now may come equipped with cellular hand-held organizers, virtual reality glasses and commercial-skipping TV, but where are our flying cars? Our robot armies? We can pest-proof plants and produce super weeds, but we still have to take a gas-burning bus to get groceries. We still sneeze from the common cold, we still cry when our hearts get broken, and we still don't know if UFOs are real.

In Out of Space, the science fiction cliché addressing ineffectual technology operates as an overarching visual metaphor for loneliness and loss. The futile emotionality of the main character endures throughout, existing in stark contrast to the barren quasi-futuristic environment and questioning the productive capabilities of the technological self relative to nature.

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