Distance to the Moon

The starting point was Calvino. Cosmicomics, stories where science becomes memory, where characters climb ladders to the moon and drift through space with longing.

In a stark future where Earth lies desolate, its sole remaining inhabitant undertakes a surreal ascent to the Moon. Battling inner demons, existential despair, and profound solitude, the character discovers unexpected companionship and glimpses of beauty and hope in the infinite vastness of space.

Stop-motion animation inspired by early sci-fi: Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Hitchcock, Samuel Beckett, Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics. Set during the Space Race era but in a future timeline.

Distance to the Moon began as musical sketches, a surrealist opera that never quite became one. Music and image built together from the start, each shaping the other. Not score to picture. A single act of composition.