Sunday, February 22, 8:30pm reception followed by film at 9pm

“…A delightfully tongue-in-cheek homage to a fictional East German space project” – Jay Weissberg, Variety

How proud we all are to have this sterling document of the eternal perseverance of the International Communist Movement! Comrade Director Jim Finn’s even hand is ever present in this chronicle of the INTERKOSMOS project, the heretofore secret pinnacle of USSR and DDR collaboration in the unforgiving vacuum of space. Please appreciate many fine displays of Socialism in action, not to mention an inspiring drill march by two proud field hockey teams. There is even an inspiring song about a Guinea Pig who becomes an Interkosmonaut himself! Let it always be known that regardless of the mission’s relative successes or failures, the resolve displayed by our Comrades in this film will terrify the powers of the bourgeoisie to their core. And the music is very well recorded. [From The Young Person’s Filmic Appreciation Periodical, 1978. Translated from the German]

“…Finn seamlessly blends actual space footage with his own lovingly handcrafted and carefully art directed scenes of Eastern Block cocktail parties, field hockey teams and space capsules … the film is an endearing delight” – Mark Olsen, IndieWIRE

“…Poker-faced, often hilarious, and endlessly inventive, this minimalist mockumentary uses a few established facts to invent a wild narrative about an international communist project to establish colonies on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn” – Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader