The artist Tom Sachs and his team of bricoleurs build a handmade space program and send two female astronauts to Mars
Production
Meticulously crafted spacecraft from plywood and found objects
Direction
Van Neistat's deadpan reverence for absolute nonsense
Costume
Hand-stitched spacesuits that somehow look credible
Director
Van Neistat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sachs's 'bricolage' philosophy rejects mass production; every screw is hand-tightened as anti-capitalist gesture.
The Mars surface was built in Sachs's NYC studio; the 'launch' happened at Park Avenue Armory with live audience.
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