“Sparagi z kksmosu” (Asparagus From Outer Space)
short fiction film, Germany, 15min, MiniDV, 2006
A nightly encounter between a Polish asparagus worker with a love for science fiction novels and a German girl in a space suit, who is filming a commercial in the woods next to the asparagus field.
IN THE EVENT OF ENOUNTERING EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE:
1) CLEARLY DISPLAY THE PALMS OF YOUR HANDS
2) MOVE AND TALK SLOWLY
3) STATE YOUR NAME AND POINT AT YOURSELF
Cast:
Martin: KAMIL DARBROWSKI
Christina: LOLA SCHMIDT
writer/director: Markus Engel
idea/treatment: Bartholomaeus Honik
director of photography:Bartholomaeus Honik
sound designer: Andreas Grodzik
set design “commercial”: Andreas Steinmann
production manager: Dominic Godehardt
costume designer: Jennifer Baumeister
music: Tobias Kassung
FESTIVAL ATTENDANCE:
- FILMZ, Festival of German Cinema in Mainz, Germany
- Shorts at Moonlight Film Festival 2007, Mainz, Germany
- 21st Brest European Short Film Festival 2006, France
- Filmtour Lublin/Warschau 2009 in Lublin and Warsaw, Poland