All Of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars

Year
2022
Country
Sweden
Duration
77’
Director
Jennifer Rainsford

On 11 March 2011 the largest earthquake in modern history hit Japan and then, thirty minutes later, the dark waves of a tsunami roared in over the coast of north-eastern Japan dragging cars, homes and lives out into the sea. 
In the film we meet Yasu, who has done over 100 dives in search of his lost wife. Sachiko keeps writing letters to her husband who was taken by the wave. Satoko is a young woman struggling with her trauma from the disaster. On the other side of the ocean, in the Hawaiian island of Kaho’olawe, a group of volunteers are gathering to clean the beach of the Japanese debris floating in from the ocean. They are all sharing the stories of the afterlife.

Jennifer Rainsford’s debut feature takes the viewer to an epic journey, from the life on Earth as seen from outer space to the smallest microcosmic perspectives, to find out how humans, animals and nature heal after a trauma. Told in the form of a film essay, backed up with scientific research and the staggering score by Teho Teardo, All of Our Heartbeats are Connected Through Exploding Stars tells a tale of the interconnectedness of all living organisms on planet Earth.

 
CREW:
Director: Jennifer Rainsford
Producer: David Herdies & Michael Krotkiewski, Mirjam Gelhorn
Cinematographer: Karolina Pajak, Iga Mikler, Wojtek Sulezycki
Sound: Ted Krotkiewski
Production
Memento Films, in co-production with Film i Skåne, WHAP
Sales:
Taskovski Films Ltd, www.taskovskifilms.com, Marija Knezevic Shajahan, [email protected], +387 65 920 857
Director
Jennifer Rainsford

Jennifer Rainsford is a visual artist and director based in Stockholm. Her short films and installations have been shown at festivals such as Oberhausen, Berlinale, Rotterdam and CPH:DOX. Her last film Lake On Fire was selected for the main short film competition at Göteborg Film Festival 2020. All Of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars is her first feature-length documentary.

Selected Filmography

All Of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars (2022), Lake on Fire (2020), Birds in Space (2018), When I Die the World Ends (2017), Mva Farasi (Rain Horse) (2012), Applied Theories of Expanding Minds (2011), Our Global Behavior Is Psychopathic (2010), For the Liberation Of Men (2009)

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Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Original language with Ukrainian subtitles
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Saturday
03 June 2023
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Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Original language with Ukrainian subtitles
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Sunday
04 June 2023
20:00
Kino42
Kostiantynivska str., 11/13
Original language with Ukrainian subtitles
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Thursday
08 June 2023
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