NASA photos resurrected from 50 years of dust—this is the moon landing they never showed you.
In the year 1957 the cold war expands to space. The Soviet-Union sends Sputnik as the first manmade object into earth-orbit. 3 years later Yuri Gagarin enters space as the first man in space. The so called "Space Race" seems to be decided. But in 1961 President Kennedy promised to send American Astronauts to the Moon. The Apollo Project was born. A space ship had to be built that is strong enough to escape earth's gravitation, land on the moon and bring the crew safely back to earth. Motion Designer Christian worked with his brother and Composer Wolfgang for 18 months on this shortfilm. The foundation were thousands original NASA photographies, taken from the Astronauts during the Apollo Missions, which were released in September 2015. It is an animated collage using different techniques to bring the stills to life.
Direction
18 months of obsessive frame-by-frame resurrection of forgotten photographs.
Editing
Animated collage techniques that make still NASA images breathe and ache.
Score
Wolfgang's composition builds slow cosmic dread into transcendent wonder.
Director
Christian Stangl
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Christian Stangl and his brother spent 18 months on a 7-minute film, averaging roughly 2.5 months per minute of finished work.
The September 2015 NASA photo dump released over 10,000 previously unseen Apollo images, most untouched by media—this film essentially premiered history's B-roll.
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