In this computer-generated “time-lapse study” of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, the Eagle spacecraft and the American flag planted alongside are shown as they slowly disintegrate. Beginning with the original image transmitted on television, the video compresses years into seconds, until nothing remains but a pile of rubble—a cynical commentary on the decay of American idealism from the ’60s to the present day. The sound is taken from recorded radio transmissions between mission control and the lunar base, but the dialogue has been removed; all that remains are the beeping radio carrier signals, static, and interference.
Marco Brambilla
Director
Apollo 1178%
Fly Me to the Moon68%
Moonwalkers61%
Apollo 13: Survival71%
Apollo 1374%
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood70%
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey77%
2001: A Space Odyssey80%
First Man70%
A Grand Day Out74%
The Dish67%
Phoenix Forgotten62%
Project Almanac67%
Koyaanisqatsi79%
A Beautiful Planet71%
Becoming Led Zeppelin74%
Star Trek: The Motion Picture64%
Partysaurus Rex71%
Grave Encounters63%
An Inconvenient Truth69%
