Vadim Demine, 73 years old, recounts his work as a military aerospace engineer and cosmonaut coach in the 1970s USSR, as explained by his daughter Régina Demina. Blending a radio version of a ‘Strip-Tease’-style documentary with audio fiction, Cosmic Dad continues in the vein of her previous works. It remains a study of realism that subtly shifts into the fantastic or a form of uncanny strangeness, exploring intimacy and the suburbs as a modern mythology.

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