On MAY 21, 2023, the first short film produced by Filming at the Mouth productions premiered at the historic Fort Myers Film Festival. The film screened in competition for "best environmental film" as a finalist. Aerojet premiered to a full audience at the Sidney & Berne Davis Arts Center. Aerojet is an experimental documentary depicting the abandoned Aerojet Rocket Testing Facility, a relic of the Cuban missile crisis. Aerojet explores how humanity exploits the land beneath us, contrasted with the hell-on-earth this environmental neglect may leave in its wake.
Responding to a question at a filmmakers Q&A, the director of AEROJET, Ryan Landy, stated "I set out to create something different, something divisive, something experimental, vague, and ambiguous. Something I knew a lot of people probably won't understand or like. It has been heartwarming to hear from those who have connected with my film. Aerojet is heavily inspired by Godfrey Reggio's KOYAANISQATSI. I'm fascinated by the film's capability to evoke ideas and emotions simply due to how the current and former images contrast. It's a stunning visual poem about our receding relationship with nature, and I wanted to explore beyond that. What could a visual poem about our destructive relationship with the environment entail? Aerojet attempts to scratch the surface."
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