ASTERNAUTS
Director: Marta Masferrer
Short film | D/USA | 2012
16 min | Dolby 5.1
46th Hof International Film Festival
2012
For the aging farmer Earl McKnutt life is pretty predictable. Wake up at daybreak, go to bed when it gets dark, and in between take care of all the work. But Earl’s boring life is suddenly turned upside down when one night a mysterious object from outer space crash-lands on his pasture. Together with his child-like brother Joel he goes to investigate this “thing” and they find themselves in the midst of the remains of exploded cows. Now they have to try to ward off the government agents who are just as curious as Earl and Joel to find out just what this mystic object is that has left a huge crater on the brothers’ pasture.