Filmstill Dark Star

Open Campus
Summer term 2023
Dark Star
Open Air Cinema 2023

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Dark Star

Dark Star | Science Fiction, Comedy | USA | 1974 | Director: John Carpenter | 83 min | 16mm | German Original Version | with Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dan O'Bannon
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A low-budget, sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists whose mission is to destroy unstable planets. 20 years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot, that resembles a beach ball, as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.


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Supporting Film: The Flat

Byt | Mystery, Fantasy, Animation | 1968 | Director: Jan Švankmajer | 13 min | 16mm | Without dialogue | with Juraj Herz, Ivan Kraus
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A man, a Kafka-like character, is locked in between four. walls. The setting is poor: table, chair, some youth-pictures. He is completely isolated, there is no communication with the outside world. Every attempt to get into contact with outside fails. A mechanical Faust slings him back into isolation. The end: despair, resignation and pessimism.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Filmarchiv Schönecker.