Auteurs in Space

Auteurs in Space

7 Episodes

Journey into outer dimensions and experience science fiction through the eyes and imaginations of great masters of cinema.

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Auteurs in Space
  • Introducing Auteurs in Space

    Episode 1

  • Solaris

    Episode 2

    Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • 1972 • Soviet Union
    Starring Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Yuri Yarvet

    Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to i...

  • Time Bandits

    Episode 3

    Directed by Terry Gilliam • 1981 • United Kingdom
    Starring John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall

    In this fantastic voyage through time and space from Terry Gilliam, a boy named Kevin (Craig Warnock) escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarfs. Armed with a map...

  • Things to Come

    Episode 4

    Directed by William Cameron Menzies • 1936 • United Kingdom
    Starring Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedrick Hardwicke

    A landmark collaboration between writer H. G. Wells, producer Alexander Korda, and designer and director William Cameron Menzies, THINGS TO COME is a science fiction film like...

  • WORLD ON A WIRE: Part 1

    Episode 5

    Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1973 • Germany
    Starring Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben

    WORLD ON A WIRE is a gloriously paranoid, boundlessly inventive take on the future from German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ph...

  • WORLD ON A WIRE: Part 2

    Episode 6

    Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1973 • Germany
    Starring Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben

    WORLD ON A WIRE is a gloriously paranoid, boundlessly inventive take on the future from German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ph...

  • La Jetée

    Episode 7

    Directed by Chris Marker • 1963 • France

    Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his complex queries about time, memory, and the rapid advancement ...