The Case Against Space

In the days leading up to Christmas 1973 three astronauts went on strike. Floating above the Earth, they downed tools onboard Skylab, NASA's first-ever space station, withdrawing over disagreements about their working conditions. To date they remain the only people to organise in outer space. Reconstructing the tense day leading up to the strike, The Case Against Space is a real-time investigation of absurd experiments, alienating technical language and constantly surveilled bodies. Based on transcripts of exchanges between the astronauts and mission control and shot in claustrophobic close-up on a 1970s CCTV system, it is a collective testimony on struggle amongst the stars.