Grasshopper Film Acquires Cosmic Documentary ‘Little, Big, And Far’ On Eve Of World Premiere At New York Film Festival
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Grasshopper Film has acquired North American distribution rights to the documentary Little, Big, and Far ahead of its world premiere at the New York Film Festival.
The film from award-winning director Jem Cohen will bow on Saturday evening as the Centerpiece selection of NYFF’s Currents section. “Jem Cohen brings the same meditative elegance and intellectual curiosity he did to Museum Hours (2012) with his stargazing new feature, again using the cinematic form to patiently interrogate ways of seeing and being,” the festival writes in its program. “The principal subject of Cohen’s film is an Austrian astronomer named Karl who has been re-evaluating his work and life after turning 70, and who travels to a mountaintop on a Greek island in search of the darkest sky against which to view the cosmos.
Yet the real matter of the singular Little, Big, and Far—whose title refers to the three concepts Karl and his physicist wife believe are at the core of their work—is as vast as the universe itself, a reckoning with scientific truth at a moment of humanity’s existential crisis.” Grasshopper Film plans a theatrical release for Little, Big, and Far in early 2025.
Along with Museum Hours, Cohen’s credits include the documentaries Counting (2015) and Benjamin Smoke (2000), and the drama Chain (2004). “This sister film to Museum Hours is drawn from the same belief, that character, place, story, and ideas can exist on an even playing field in a film that slips seamlessly between fiction and non-fiction,” Cohen said in a statement. “The new film is resolutely down-to-earth and otherworldly; contemplative, angry, humorous and beautiful.
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