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Van Neistat & Tom Sachs

(Watch the Film Courage video interview with Tom Sachs here)

10 Rules Of Filmmaking by Tom Sachs of A SPACE PROGRAM

Film Courage:

Tom briefly off-camera you were just telling us the slogan about NASA and I thought it relates to something that was interesting at the beginning of A SPACE PROGAM documentary, about how you don’t just do things well, it seems like you’re a perfectionist and you insist on making sure that it’s perfect.

Tom Sachs:

When we say perfectionism, it’s often described as an illness and that might be true but what we say in the studio is ‘It won’t fail because of me. It won’t fail because of my part.’ That’s a great slogan for a collective work and when we put a man on the moon it was 35,000 people working on it. Each one of them said if we don’t get there, it’s not because of something I didn’t do and if everyone really agrees and believes in that, then we can achieve these incredible things.

Film Courage:

You’ve said before you don’t take vacations, you don’t believe in them. Therefore, do you ever feel your creative work feels stale because if you’re totally nose to the grindstone and you believe in making sure that every I is dotted and T is crossed, how do you recharge?

Tom:

Well that’s a great question. Stanley Kubrick never took vacations and little is know about how he…….(Watch the rest of the video interview here on Youtube)

In A Space Program, internationally acclaimed artist Tom Sachs takes us on an intricately handmade journey to the red planet, providing audiences with an intimate, first person look into his studio and methods. The film is both a piece of art in its own right and a recording of Sachs’ historic piece, Space Program 2.0: MARS, which opened at New York’s Park Avenue Armory in 2012.

Directed by Van Neistat, A Space Program is a captivating introduction to Sachs’ work for the uninitiated, and required viewing for his longtime fans.

Playing in many locations, including CINEFAMILY in Los Angeles!

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If The Martian was directed by the characters of Be Kind Rewind, it would look something like A Space Program. 

We’re giving away tickets to see it at Metrograph in New York City this weekend!

Tom Sachs’s A Space Program EXCLUSIVE NEW YORK ENGAGEMENT STARTS MARCH 187 LUDLOW STREET, NEW YORK TICKETS ON SALE NOW (assigned seating): www.metrograph.com Showtimes: 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00, (and 11:00pm Fri & Sat only)