Director and Editor Rowena Potts Writer and Producer Ceridwen Dovey Original Music Bronwyn Cumbo Sound Design Annie Breslin Sound Mix Peter Johnson Color Roen Davis
© Image courtesy of Andrea Valtolina
Festivals
St. Kilda Film Festival, May, 2021
Mimesis Documentary Festival, August, 2021
Uppsala Short Film Festival, October, 2021
Calcutta International Short Film Festival, December, 2021
Antenna Documentary Film Festival, February, 2022
Revelation Perth International Film Festival, July, 2022
Imagine Science Film Festival, October, 2022
Down Under Berlin Film Festival, October, 2022
Mopoke Festival, February, 2023
Exhibitions and Events
Bunjil Place Outdoor Screen program, curated as part of the Museum of the Moon installation, June 26 – July 4, 2021
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia: Sensemaking about Space, August 17, 2021
Live Futures: Remapping Ecologies, Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, October 21, 2021
2021 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize (Finalist), November 12 - December 12, 2021
The International Space University: 2022 Adelaide Conference on Space Junk, February 4-5, 2022
Slow Canoe Live Journal: a live event presenting works of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, film, sound and imagery, curated by Anna Thwaites and Oliver Driscoll, June 2022
Sydney Science Festival Space Imaginaries Symposium, Powerhouse Museum, August 18, 2022
If the Moon could speak, what would it say?
A short, experimental film that explores our ancient and complex relationship with the Moon.
A commercially-driven, international Space Race has propelled us to this moment in the 21st century: within a few years, the Moon’s surface may be subject to permanent human occupation, its resources aggressively mined for profit, and its ancient nature-spaces polluted by private industry. Do we want to stand by silently as such irreparable damage is caused to our sister satellite? What if we actually listened to what the Moon had to say? Based on an original poem by award-winning Australian author Ceridwen Dovey, Moonrise is a striking, surreal montage of historical, artistic and scientific lunar imagery that invites us to consider the Moon’s point of view in the face of increasingly exploitative human activity in space.
A Press Kit can be downloaded here.
Please take a moment to read this Declaration of the Rights of the Moon, of which Ceridwen Dovey is a co-author. You can learn more about the declaration here.