EURONEWS OCT 19-Russian film director Klim Shipenko said on Tuesday he was up for making a movie on the moon or even Mars after returning from 12 days of shooting aboard the International Space Station that transformed his ideas about the possibilities of cinema.
Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild returned to Earth on Sunday after gathering more than 30 hours of material for “The Challenge,” billed as the first space movie and hailed by Russian media as a world-beating achievement.
Asked about a possible moon sequel, Shipenko told a news conference: “We’re ready. We believe space cinema should be filmed in space. If it’s about the moon, let’s go to the moon, if it’s Mars, let’s go to Mars.
“Why not? Why should cinema be filmed in a studio?”
He said the experience had taught him new ways of creating cinema.
“Some scenes that I imagined one way on earth came together completely differently… People can be face to face (in space) but one of them is head up and the other is horizontal and the camera can be on a different plane, and that transforms your consciousness completely,” he said.
“For me it was a cinematic discovery, to realise scenes in a completely different way in three or four planes.”
