SYNOPSIS
Doubt creeps in as Cosmo, a space traveller, addresses his gender identity. In need of clarity and change, he wants to risk crossing the Butterfly Nebula. His spaceship, on the other hand, has a personality of her own. Cosmo will need to negotiate change with a certain loss of control.
CAST
CAIO AMADO - Cosmo
JOEY - Jesse
IMOGEN HEATH - The Spaceship
CREW
a film by CAIO AMADO SOARES
in artistic collaboration with
MICHEL WAGENSCHÜTZ
writer & producer - CAIO AMADO SOARES
co-direction on set - NADJA KRÜGER,
MICHEL WAGENSCHÜTZ
director of photography - NADJA
KRÜGER
sound recording - PHILIPP FRÖHLICH, DENIZ
ŞIMŞEK
editing - MICHEL WAGENSCHÜTZ & CAIO AMADO SOARES
art direction - CAIO
AMADO SOARES, MICHEL WAGENSCHÜTZ, HELENA RIBAS
backdrop design - CAIO
AMADO SOARES
costume design - MICHEL WAGENSCHÜTZ
prop design - HELENA RIBAS
sound design &
music - MAXINE FRANKS
sound mixing - JOCHEN JEZUSSEK
VFX & color
grading - CAIO AMADO SOARES
script consultants - PHILIPP FRÖHLICH, NADJA KRÜGER, MICHEL
WAGENSCHÜTZ
catering - CLAIRE EGAN
process witches - LEE STEVENS, ERNEST AH, PHILIPP FRÖHLICH
STATEMENT
Mishaps in Spacetime zooms in to hear a chaotic plenary discussion
within its main character, accompanying him through his transition. His spaceship, symbolising his body,
is the stage where gender trouble meets self-discovery and its limits, unleashing the fear associated
with change and loss. Through humor and self-reflection, the (anti-)hero's flaws are laid bare in an
increasingly disjointed environment, marked by a "broken" aesthetic.
This queer speculative short conveys an auto-ficcional narrative linking the specific topic of trans
identity
and the broader issues of anxiety and isolation in a world driven by competition
rather than collaboration, where change happens faster and faster.
Inspired in Stanislaw Lem's flawed (anti-)hero in
Star
Diaries, Ursula K. Le Guin's coming of age story A Wizard of Earthsea and Vilém
Flusser's deep dive in
Vampyrotheutis
Infernalis, Mishaps in Spacetime offers a poetic and humorous narrative on navigating
internal chaos in outer space.
SCREENINGS/EXHIBITIONS
• 05.25 - 22nd IndieLisboa - International Film Festival - Lisbon,
Portugal
• 06.25 - XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin,
Germany
• 09.25 - Queer City Cinema, Regina - Saskatchewan,
Canada
• 09.25 - AIL - Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, Vienna,
Austria
• 10.25 - dokumentART, Neubrandenburg,
Germany
