Heart of an Astronaut won from the festival Shorts shorts in Tokyo best short documentary and therefore Oscar qualifying

Screening at cinemas in Stockholm and Folkets bio and on christmas eve at six on Swedish television

21 december 2023 Norrköping, Hägersten, Göteborg, Östersund, Malmö, Umeå, Åstorp, Lund, Boden, Mörbylånga, Iggesund, Alvesta, Västerås, Arvidsjaur

December 12th 2023

Heart of an astronaut will be screened as part of an event in reaktorhallen at KTH , panel discussion afterwards with me, Sweden's first astronaut, the European astronauts' doctor, space medicine researchers & Costanza Julia Bani will moderate.

"Welcome to an event, held at the KTH Reactor Hall, where art meets science!

It is organized by KTH NAVET Centre, KTH Space Center as well as the producer and director of the film “Heart of an Astronaut” which will be the centerpiece.

The general theme is Body In Space which will concretize how it feels to float around in space by various visual and sensorial experiences, such as sonification of space data and image projections, including Christer Fuglesang sharing his journey to space.

The event will start with a screening of the film, which is a short documentary inviting you on the journey of an astronaut’s heart from Earth to Space. Its beats, its perils and its strength told by the astronaut’s doctor, the flight surgeon Brigitte Godard. It is a romantic trip of the cardiovascular system into space. The screening will be followed by presentations, Q/A and mingle with invited speakers!

Time: December 12, 8.30-11Place: KTH Reactor hall, Drottning Kristinas väg 51, 114 28 Stockholm. Please register here to the event:

https://www.kth.se/form/body-in-space

Agenda:
08:30 opening doors of reactor hall and mingle
09:00 Welcoming to the event by Leif Handberg, manager of the reactor hall, and Roberto Bresin, director of NAVET
09:10 Screening of Heart of an Astronaut
09:30 Panel discussion with guests:JENNIFER RAINSFORD, director of Heart of an AstronautCOSTANZA JULIA BANI, moderator / producer of Heart of an Astronaut and Ass Prof in Film and Media Production at SKH Stockholm Universtiy of the ArtsCHRISTER FUGLESANG, Astronaut and Director of the KTH Space CenterBRIGITTE GODARD, flight surgeon DAG LINNARSSON, Professor Emeritus of Baromedicine at Karolinska Institutet HANS BERG, Researcher in Orthopedics, muscle physiology at Karolinska Institutet and KTH
10:00 Q and A
10:15 Gym in Space and coffee break
10:30 Presentation by ANITA ZANELLA, Researcher at INAF National Institute of Astrophysics, Padova, Italy (15 min about The Audible Universe) 10:45 -11:00 Open discussion "

2022 
Work and Project Grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Winner of ESA (European Space Agency) "Small World Film Competition," Best Pitch CPH DOX, selected for Forum des Images, Paris