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2026, 18 min, in Post-Production

A Planet Painted by Hand

Synopsis: A Planet Painted by Hand portrays a scientific mission conducted in the Mars Desert Research Station: one of the largest and longest-running space analog facilities in the world. Set in the desert of the American Southwest, scientists live there and perform simulations to understand how humans could live on the Red Planet. The film allows us to eavesdrop on snippets of quotidian conversations, proposing, as well, broader reflections on the limits of human imagination and our relationship with outer space.

This project is supported by the “la Caixa” Foundation and Cultures d’Avenir 2024, a training, creation, and exchange program promoted by the CCCB in Barcelona, the Centre Pompidou and the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin.