Oh what a strange vision! The film opens with a familiar vista from our own galaxy – a pink- and violet-hued constellation – and then suddenly presents a most peculiar object: there, floating in the star-lit night, is a beige caravan making its away between asteroids and assorted jetsam. Evidently space has become a gigantic bin, full of all the rubbish discarded by humans: sticky tape, plastic bags, bicycle handlebars and even a beer bottle. We go closer to this funny floating vehicle until we find ourselves inside it and realise this space caravan is actually home to a particularly eccentric granddad! That becomes even clearer when we see him sleeping cosily with his slippers on while his rocket-caravan cruises across the universe on autopilot.
Apparently he has taken the contents of his house with him, including a 1970s television, his record player, his collection of vinyl albums and even indoor plants – he has made himself a little cocoon far from Earth! That explains the title of “Home Away 3000” – except, why 3000? This figure is curious - might it be the caravan’s series number or perhaps the year in which it took off? Is the film showing us the year 3000 already? The old man’s moustache is as white as his hair and he seems to have been wandering around the infinite universe for a long time...
Is he lost or is he on his way back from an epic mission? Whatever the case, when he lands on a planet it’s for only one reason: to fix his vehicle, which seems to be in quite a state. But as he sets about trying to do that, a strange robot that lives on this remote planet comes along, having been attracted by the toolbox... With no little mischief, the film-makers serve up a subtle work that explores art, solidarity and the beauty of our Earth, which we absolutely have to protect or risk losing it. And could it be that this robot is also nurturing a memory of a bygone world that used to have much more than scrap metal and sand?
