The countdown audio footage from the Apollo 11 launch date is heard over a flamed-out, iridescent landscape. Appropriating and reframing the historical moment in its present site, Smith creates small disruptions and proposes, finally, the intent to truly represent the past might be as misplaced as a green screen in the desert.
Cauleen Smith
Director
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