Projeto Apollo

  • Run time: 4 min
  • Premiere: 2000. March 30.

Combining artfully designed sets and digital processing, Santos recreates the historic Apollo lunar landing for this essayistic video, which uses simulation to interrogate representation. Relating a long-circulated rumor that the landing was actually faked in a NASA film studio — an opinion reputedly held by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, among others — Santos delicately negotiates the increasingly blurry line between fact and fiction. As he notes in his on-screen text, the coming of the Internet makes any purported fact "easy to say, hard to prove."

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Camera

Evandro Rogers

Director of Photography

Directing

Eder Santos

Director

Sound

Camera

Evandro Rogers

Director of Photography

Directing

Eder Santos

Director

Sound