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Every day, Vandana Verma travels across the face of Mars, taking pictures of its surface – all the while never leaving a NASA laboratory in Pasadena, California, from where she controls the Curiosity rover. This engrossing essayistic documentary joins her and other experts in space research in meditating over images of a planet located tens of millions of kilometers from Earth. Mars thus becomes the ideal place for studying our paradoxical relationship to photographs and for contemplating whether images from space (or also from various places on our planet) present us with reality or whether they actually create an alternate reality that we should approach far more cautiously. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)
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The Other Side of Mars offers a very interesting perspective on the issue of depicting reality through photographs, while alluding to the degree of objectivity in the subjective assessment of visual perceptions. Accompanied by distinctive, almost metallic sounding music, the viewer travels to the surface of our neighbouring planet to learn how scientists are trying to map and explore this environment, which is very distant to most of us. However, despite the obvious narrative value of the documentary, I had quite a hard time empathizing with the issues at hand – even on a layman's level – and by the end I didn't even find myself much more informationally rich than before the screening.
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