Launch

"Launch" is an artistic impression of America's space program, culminating with coverage of the space shuttle's return to flight. It is a meditation on the end of an era. The film imagines a space center deserted as nature has begun to reclaim the complex. A hurricane swells and takes over. Finally, the eye of the storm arrives allowing one last rocket to escape carrying the last humans off the planet.

"Launch" has been awarded Rooftop Films 2004 Filmmakers' Fund Grant and Experimental Television Center's Finishing Funds 2006 award.
(The Experimental Television Center's Finishing Funds program is supported by the Electronic Film and Media Program at the New York State Council on the Arts.)

Recent and Upcoming screenings:

Launch screened at the Chicago Underground Film Festival in the Docuentary Short Category on Sunday, Nov. 2 at 4:45pm in the program "Short Social Sing-alongs" at the Viaduct Theater #2.

Launch screened at the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival in the Documentary competition in the program "American Landscapes" on Oct. 16, 4:15pm (Arsenic) and Oct. 17, 10:30pm (Cinema Oblo), 2008.

Launch screened in the International Competition in the program "Lost Spaces" at the VIDEOEX Experimental Film & Video Festival in Zurich, Switzerland, on May 23, 6pm and May 28, 10pm, 2008.

Launch had its much anticipated Florida premiere at the Sarasota Film Festival in "Shorts 3: Place to Place (Documentaries)" on Apr. 7, 2:15pm and Apr. 13, 6:45pm, 2008. Show info here.

Launch screened in New York at the Tribeca Film Festival in the program "Environmental Rupture" on Apr. 29, 10 pm, Apr. 30, 12:45pm, May 1, 3:45pm, and May 3, 9pm, 2008. Play and email the trailer for Launch directly from the film guide. See a 2 min. director's biography video relating to Launch. More info on Tribeca's shorts program here.

Additional screenings are listed here.

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