The House at the Edge of the Galaxy is an allegorical short film about the beauty and significance of the here and now, versus the quest for the bigger and better world perpetually beyond our grasp. This cosmic tale takes place at a desolate outpost where a lonely boy is taught by a passing Cosmonaut how to plant a “star” to transform his existence. In the process of yearning for the heavens, he discovers that paradise instead resides in his own backyard.
Cinematography
Bleached American plains masquerade as convincing Soviet steppe.
Production
DIY space aesthetics that out-budget most blockbusters in soul.
Director
Gleb Osatinski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film deliberately echoes Soviet space-age propaganda aesthetics—glorious cosmic futures promised to citizens who never got them—while being shot in rural America.
Director Gleb Osatinski was born in St. Petersburg and emigrated; the film's liminal spaces mirror his own between-cultures displacement.
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