Festivals

St. Kilda Film Festival, June 2023

Perth Revelation International Film Festival, July 2023

Pariscience International Science Film Festival, October 2023

Experimental Film Festival Guanajuato, October 2023

Exhibitions and Events

Powerhouse Museum & Institute for Culture & Society | Earth // Off-Earth Politics, October 2023

ANU & The Street Theatre | Outer Space Film Quartet Screening, August 2023

Screened as work-in-progress at Live Dreams: Tidal, curated by Louana Sainsbury | Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, October 2022

Requiem imagines the last remaining astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) bidding farewell to their vessel before it is deorbited and crashed into the remote Pacific Ocean.

Based on an original collection of poems — voiced by actual astronauts around the world — this speculative non-fiction film combines exquisite still photographs of the ISS taken by Roland Miller and Paolo Nespoli with dramatic archival footage that evokes its future watery grave. As the ISS's lifespan draws inexorably to a close, how will we as humans say goodbye to an outer space habitat that has been a home to astronauts for decades?

Featuring the voices and generous participation of Dumitru Dorin Prunariu (Romanian cosmonaut), Paolo Nespoli (ESA astronaut), Claudie Haigneré (ESA astronaut), Soyeon Yi (South Korean astronaut), and Cady Coleman (NASA astronaut).