Pavel Klushantsev’s Luna is also on YouTube), to add this 1965 film to our Tarkovsky example (there are rough translations if you turn on closed captioning):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT1s5s2LurM

The rip is low quality so it may be hard to watch beginning to end, but you can scan.

I expect you don’t need to re-watch Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, but I’ll touch on both cinematography and how it relates to György Ligeti [HU] music – and how it framed how the public was exposed to Ligeti. Check in particular the contact sheets here -

https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2001-space-odyssey-cinematography

Watch this for an overview of where Ligeti fits in the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTw2T708TW0

You know the Strauss, but here’s Aram Kachaturian [USSR], Gayane (Adagio) https://youtu.be/D9_ldQCPdZg

And it’s helpful to watch the Ligeti compositions performed, as you see how the textures are produced by singers and musicians: Lux Aeterna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgg0zh_X-9k

Atmospheres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCNzwdLwA8g

From Kenya: Wanuri Kahiu's “Pumzi”, 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlR7l_B86Fc [film]

https://youtu.be/SWMtgD9O6PU [interview]

Vim Crony’s “NOISE GATE”, 2013 https://vimeo.com/72706809 [film]

https://vimeo.com/72637333 [behind the scenes]

Oh and – probably don’t watch this but if anyone is particularly bored this weekend, the 1986 film Space Camp probably is the epitome of the American 1980s vision of space (and sci-fi aesthetic tropes) before the Challenger disaster and it is online. Plus, it has Lea Thompson? (and the actual Shuttle stuff is weirdly accurate even if the movie itself is beyond silly) Also, John Williams wrote the music. https://youtu.be/Jum9gJAOaqU

That seems a lot but you can spend a couple of hours with the videos and have plenty to take in!

In particular I'm interested - given how many of you are working to construct new post-colonialist and post-military visions of space - how we understand the Soviet and American constructions of space in cinema and music, and where this might go next ( as with Vim Crony in the USA and Wanuri Kahlu in Kenya)