A low-budget sci-fi gem that owes everything to the director's resourcefulness. Sidney Pink recreates the landscape of a distant planet, Uranus, to which explorers are sent in order to search for signs of life. There they fall under the spell of a mysterious creature who can read into their deepest fears and fantasies and then tries to break them down by creating, before their eyes, their homeland Denmark... full of beautiful Danish women! A good part of the film therefore actually takes place in a typical rural Danish village. Space in the studio was so restricted that the actors, who felt they were always in the same spot, had to make absolutely sure they weren't walking too fast, otherwise they'd walk right off the set! The film's producers thought the film lacked action, so they decided to shoot additional scenes with monsters popping out of the neighboring studio and add optical effects or even use rushes from other movies in the final edit. Despite, or rather thanks to, these obstacles and interventions, the film is a charming example of sci-fi kitsch, full of sparkling colors and a surrealist, psychedelic atmosphere.

Practical Info

• Date:
  2011-02-25
• Time:
  22h30
• Location:
  Cinema Nova

  3, rue d'Arenbergstraat
  1000 Bruxelles—Brussel
  + 32 (0)2 511 24 77
  http://www.nova-cinema.org

Background Info

• year:
  1961
• director:
  Sidney Pink
• country:
  USA/ Denmark
• version:
  vo ang / eng ov
• format:
  16mm
• duration:
  83'