Endeavour

Johann Lurf´s film Endeavour slides between documentary, avant-garde film, and science-fiction. This highly singular combination of materials and techniques gives the viewer of Endeavour a feeling of flight, as the film continually evades the gravity of genres and definitive definitions. Lurf uses NASA footage from a day and a night launch of the space-shuttle that follows the booster rockets from take-off to splashdown. Each launch is filmed by six cameras, one each at the bottom, middle and top of the two booster rockets. Lurf takes this simultaneously shot footage and edits it consecutively, cutting from one camera to the...