Kosmo

The naughty boy Ott, who spends his school hours lazing and fighting, gets into a launching spaceship and flies into space. This is how exciting and even dangerous adventures begin, during which Ott experiences a long-known truth: you can't go through life without school wisdom. Estonian/Soviet animation short from 1961.

A girl, who is in love with a man, refuses to enter an arranged marriage with someone else. When her beloved goes to war, she decides to enter a monastery, where she dies.

It’s summer in Berlin and Miriam is waiting for the woman she loves to return. The wait is unbearable. Then an astrologer tells her that the two of them don’t fit together and she should instead be looking for some one born on 19th January 1985. Miriam decides to wait no longer and sets out on a road trip adventure to find the one person who she is meant to be with.

Next future. People no longer communicate, except within a virtual reality called Néo Kósmo.

Kosmonauta is a visualization of an actual sound clip from a female cosmonaut in distress. The signal was picked up on a soviet space frequency in 1962 and gave rise to the theory of the (lost) first female cosmonaut.

This mid-length experimental film approximates the economy of a mash-up, bringing together audio-visual footage from over 20 films, multiple audio samples (found and created), and text that combines fictional and biographical stories, some of which relate to the moving image made in Polish People’s Republic (1952-1989). Lacking an ongoing narrative frame, the film combines fragments of stories from various places, embedded in the images, fictional or auto-biographical, told through the voices scattered throughout the film’s soundtrack, and elsewhere through the captions that bring a momentary sense of order through their consistently neat positioning. Fragmented and distorted, the text, sound, and images are, nevertheless, mashed up into a structure of its own idiosyncratic logic, style, and narration.

The nearly two-hour film Origin of The Night (Amazon Cosmos) (shot between 1973–1977 and finished in 1982), which references a myth of the indigenous Tupi people, is a meditation on the South American rain forest that was filmed in its entirety along the Rhine near Düsseldorf Airport. In it, the dichotomies of day and night, new and old worlds, and nature and culture unfold glacially and immersively. Only at the very end, in the film’s closing credits, does Baumgarten reveal where the compelling and poetic images were shot.

Fantastic film about the space trip of Klaabu, Ninni and Pessik, to their help to the habitats of other planet in a release from the yoke of ominous Mushroom and transformation of motherland in a flowering garden.

Muscles, skin and heart that wish to be touched. About a body that wants to experience proximity to another body.

A pseudo-documentary narrative about the first living creature in the cosmos: the dog Laika. Almost everyone has heard of Laika, but only a few know what actually happened to her.

Positive and negative collide. An open space emerges.

The mystery of the crystals under closer examination. What is it that makes them possess magic powers as claimed by mystics of all ages? Through growing crystals directly on film their mystical qualities shine straight to the screen. Unfiltered, only aided by light which gracefully breaks its rays into rich visual textures.

An old cosmonaut now lives his life in his flat, the same way as he lived it in a space station. He still does heroic missions, and misses his close relatives. His relatives see it differently. Is this old man capable of dealing with society's norms?