A tongue-in-cheek homage to an ambitious, secret East German space project to colonise the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. A project that had the ideals, flair and energy of the Soviet arts scene of the 1920s fused with the more bohemian sensibility from West Germany of the early 1970s.
Jim Finn has made a name for himself making short films and videos that both playfully and directly approach the issues of capitalism, communism, and revolution; humanising staid subjects and at the same time invoking a dry humour. Shaping something new from propaganda, news and other historic images. With ‘Interkosmos’, Finn reveals all with beautiful archive material, swinging musical numbers in retro-socialist style, beautiful miniature sets, guinea pigs and a dramatic plot theory.
With a sense of humour so, an almost anally-retentive eye for the iconography and fashions of the Soviet-era Warsaw pact countries, and a great ear for both the comedy intrinsic to Socialist propaganda dialogue - and pauses - this is a serious rib-tickler – The Guardian
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