Films by Elsa Kremser

Austria, Germany 2019, 90 min
by Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter

SPACE DOGS embarks on a quest after the street dog Laika who was the first living being sent into space, where she burned out. A legend says that today her ghost is wandering through the Russian capital. The hybrid-documentary SPACE DOGS takes this myth as its starting point and proceeds by following Laika’s traces. They lead into the story of Soviet space travels and street dogs that live in today’s Moscow. This film is a magical journey across our earthly borders and tells a so far unknown story of Moscow stray dogs – from ascent into space to the life on the surface of the earth.

Germany 2013, 60 min
by Nicole Vögele

A station in thick fog, tracks that disappear into the white mists and a figure, waiting. In between patches of mist a fox appears, looking for a scent in the wind. And then: bluster, shimmer, silence. And more fog. Views of nature merge with brief encounters. People living in their own worlds: an astronomer who, looking to the sky, would welcome the idea that we might not be alone in the universe. A musician hoping to meet the right woman one day. And a stableman for whom the world has always turned a little too fast. All are driven by their quiet longing to make contact, to not feel alone, to gaze into openness. Far from providing explanations, the film tries instead to help us perceive our inner hum, reaching out for an emptiness that cannot be grasped. In the end a clear view. The fox runs off, and we remain alone.

Germany 2012, 70 min
by Levin Peter

A PROMISE is a documentary reflection of a young couple on questions about relationship, marriage and divorce today. What keeps two people together at all? Love can be stifled under the pressure of this contract, or it can blossom into a bond of unimagined depth when faced with eternity. Why do two people choose to make a promise to each other? Levin Peter and Elsa Kremser, both filmmakers and a young couple, look for answers to these questions. A PROMISE is a documentary reflection on relationships, marriage and divorce. Levin got married when he was 20 and divorced four years later. But it was only after his divorce that he began to ask himself what marriage really means. In the new relationship to Elsa the impetus to examine this in film aroused. Driven by a very personal story, the film interweaves an ensemble of different couples and concepts of marriage. A PROMISE gently explores a web of hopes and dreams, fear and dependency, loyalty and trust.