OTHER WORLDS

Filmed in the Atacama Desert using near-infrared cinematography, OTHER WORLDS transforms earthly landscapes into visions of a world at once primordial, alien, and deeply familiar. What first appears as a journey through distant worlds gradually reveals itself as something more intimate: an encounter with the unknown at the heart of perception itself.

These images invite us to look again at what we call reality, and at the fragile boundary we imagine between ourselves and the cosmos. In this sense, the film is not only about distant worlds, but about the one world from which all others arise: the world of perception itself.

Between mineral silence, cosmic depth, and the strange beauty of primordial forms, OTHER WORLDS becomes a meditation on the origins of life and consciousness. It suggests that what feels most distant may also be what is most intimate — and that the world we inhabit is not what we take it to be, but something far stranger and more mysterious.

The works on Nebulas are the fruit of a great collaboration between Visual Artist Teun van der Zalm and myself. I also composed shots using the best Nasa photographic material of our solar system I could finda and also footage from weather Cinematographers Dustin Farrell and Chad Cowan, and some of my own previous footage.

IVAN MARIA FRIEDMAN
Direction, Cinematography, postproduction, visual effects, compositing and editing
TEUN VAN DER ZALM
Visual Effects Artist
DUSTIN FARRELL, CHAD COWAN
Additionnal Cinematography
ALEXANDER OLFERT
Compositing assistan