In 1972 the astronaut Charles Duke landed on the Moon on the Apollo XVI. He was in charge of taking photos of the lunar surface with a high-resolution camera. Questioning the veracity of photographic documentation through its narrative The Sasha is an inquiry about the human perspective on Earth and our constant struggle with our temporal and spatial limitations. From the exploration of space to cyberspace, from an analogue Moon in 1972 to a virtual Moon in Google Earth today. A story about parallel universes where eternity seems to be lost between frames and interfaces.

BY  Maria Molina Peiro (ES)


María Molina Peiró is a Spanish audiovisual artist and filmmaker, based in Amsterdam, whose work stands at the intersection between cinema, contemporary art and research. Her films and installations has been shown at internationals museums and film festivals like Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Louvre Museum (Paris), Washington National Gallery, MMCA National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), London Science Museum, International Film Festival Rotterdam IFFR, BFI London Film Festival, Film Festival Oberhausen, Krakow Film Festival, Indie Lisboa, Sevilla European Film Festival (SEFF) among many others. In her work, she explores layered relationships between history, technology and nature. She is particularly interested in the blurry boundaries between memory and imagination, natural and artificial, science and mysticism or living and nonliving entities.