‘‘Our Side of the Moon’’ by Valerie van Zuijlen

Sizzle reel, 2022, The Netherlands

Directed by Valerie van Zuijlen (NL)

Cinematography by Emilia Tapprest (FI)

Set design and costume design by Kiki Gordon

The story follows the life of Diana, a brilliant young radio astronomer who lives alone in a rotating house under the Dwingeloo radio telescope in the Netherlands. Marked by a chronic mutism, she possesses a special skill: sound-to-movement synesthesia, a condition which allows her to ‘feel’ sound as muscular responses in her body.  During the day, an operator at the Westerbork radio station, during the night she connects with her ‘moonbouncing’ penpal Atari, based at the squatted Elfordstown Earthstation, whose real nature turns all of our expectations upside down.