Competition
U.S. Premiere

STORY



Country of production: Romania, Germany
Year: 2003
Language: English
Mins: 87

Director: Dana Ranga
Cinematography: Francisco Gozon
Music: Miron Jakupovic
Editing: Thomas Wellmann
Sound: Thomas Mahler
Producer: Peter Hintz
Production company: Good Idea Films
Source: Dana Ranga
Good Idea Films
Motzstr. 88
10779 Berlin
GERMANY
Phone: +49 30 2118700
Fax: +49 30 2118700
danaranga@web.de
www.storythefilm.com


Before he became an astronaut, Story Musgrave was a mathematician, a chemist at Kodak, a trauma surgeon, a pilot, an experimental parachutist, and later a poet and student of literature. He had a longer career as an astronaut than anyone else, having flown into space more often than anyone else: six times. He went on his last mission in 1996, at age sixty-one, conducting several space walks. He is also a father of six children.

What made this man start out on such a journey? What fueled his strength, his curiosity, his drive? What did he look for in space? What did he find there? Here, an astronaut powerfully speaks out: about how space changes man, about how a man with such incomparable experience lives when back on Earth.

Has Story Musgrave found his place? Can he ever find it again, after he has cut his roots so radically - in space, and in his tragic personal story. Stylistically provocative - filmed by Hungarian photographer Francisco Gozon - this rare and unique psychological essay offers the viewer a spectacular and fascinating character. This is a personal account of cosmic storms of feeling, and adventures in perception.

Dana Ranga was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1964. She completed her studies in Theory of Film, Semiotics and History of Art with a master's thesis on socialist musical films. EAST SIDE STORY, a film about socialist musicals, which screened at Sundance, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Berlin, and far beyond, then achieved a strong release throughout Europe, North America, Brazil, and Australia.

filmography as director
STORY (2003)
EAST SIDE STORY (1997)
EINZELGANGER (1994)
ON THE MOVE (1992)

Saturday 03-Apr-2004 3:00 PM Gallery Theatre