What began as research unravels into a desktop film that explores a queer reimagining of a Soviet space flight.
Udval Altangerel's "Orbita" meditates on language, meaning and vision through a circular peep-hole cosmos. In a blue haze and drifting focus, an auditory drone alludes to ritual, a world opening by naming and recollection.
Through rituals of birth and death, the filmmaker and her family reconnect with their ancestral land in the Gobi Desert.
