"Glory to the Conquerors of Space" is a short fantasy in 3-D anaglyph by Ryan Suits, of Atomic Cheesecake Productions. It is a story of a female Soviet cosmonaut who voyages to Titan, Saturn's largest moon. She is alone on her ship, and seems not to have any radio contact with Earth. (There is no dialogue in the movie.) Since the USSR collapsed in 1991, this seems to have been a long, long space flight that everyone, including her former Soviet colleagues, simply forgot about. Upon her arrival on Titan, she finds it inhabited by blue-skinned humanoids.
And, well, it gets weird. The themes of abandonment and isolation are obvious, but the narrative itself is cryptic, and the symbolism is not always clear. The cosmonaut is red (even Red, as it were) and the aliens are blue. And of course the viewer will see them through a red lens and a blue lens. So is this a deliberate reference to the opposition, or the complementarity, of the two races? And are the events allegorical of anything really existing in our own world? According to the credits, seven of the Titan women are "Virgin Mothers." Which seven? Form your own theories; I wouldn't presume to guess.
Nudity advisory: some of the blue women are topless, though they are covered in blue paint. If brief glimpses of naked blue female chests would violate the rules of wherever you are unlucky enough to be, then watch this movie elsewhere.
I see that Suits has posted this movie to YouTube and Vimeo, but I won't embed them here, because I want you to see the high-quality MP4 version he has embedded on his own website. That's the way to see this.
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