Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Cornerhouse: Staff Review/ Iron Sky



"In 1945 Nazis sent a secret mission to the Dark Side of the moon. Surviving the fall of the Third Reich, they constructed a base – in the shape of a Swastika, obviously - away from the gaze of their Allied enemies and waited…
In 2018 there is a woman in the White House, one that looks and acts suspiciously like former Republican Vice President nominee Sarah Palin, and she needs to be re-elected. So what’s the best way to achieve this? Put a black man on the moon of course, because that will look good, right? But when the astronaut wanders too close to the Moon fortress, it grants the Nazi army the impetus to begin their return to Earth."
Published 29/05/2012