The Outside

The strange desire human beings have to leave the planet has made me wonder about the impulse for space colonization. Researching current space programs, I realised that, paradoxically, while we prepare to travel to other worlds, we are still discovering unknown aspects of our own planet. So I asked myself: what would happen if astronauts visited Earth? Historically presented as heroes of paradigms of scientific knowledge and technological mastery, in The Outside, the astronauts have to survive stranded in a primitive landscape without the help of technology. A shepherd guides them in a form of nomad life. A journey that takes them back to a time when we roamed the deserts, hunting, admiring gods that lived in the sky. My hallucinatory vision shows Earth as a primitive world, with all the beauty and mystery of our planet. The desert is the scenery of this adventure film about the technological human being and their relationship with our planet in a time when we are obsessed with leaving it. I continue to be surprised that human beings believe that it is possible to dominate the universe.