Between the alien and the vampire, the bartender and the gigolo, the poet and the mime — passing through London, Berlin, and New York — David Bowie navigated the terrain of film representation over five decades with the same desire and performative intensity that brought him global notoriety as a musician.

David Bowie, An Odyssey explains the artist's relationship with cinema and moving image over time, in the quarter leading up to the tenth anniversary of his passing.

From the impact of German expressionism (which led him to live in Berlin) to 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) — a film he paid tribute in his first major musical success — Bowie was deeply inspired by the seventh art and, at the same time, served as an inspiration to several filmmakers and artists, with an influence that has lasted to this day. Whether as Major Tom or Major Celliers, in the Thin White Duke costume, or with Warhol's ‘fright wig’, Bowie's constant creative reinvention has given us a myriad of characters, stories and visual ideas that have left their mark on contemporary culture and cinema.

The countdown has begun, and from October, Batalha enters Bowie’s orbit: "Take your protein pills and put your helmet on."