Experimental Film.
Fulldome projection, 3200 x 3200 TGA digital video. 5.1 Surround.
Sound by Helga Pogatschar.
Trailer duration: 2:28 min.
Flm duration: 22 min
2010
Synopsis
A rare film combining art and science, Moonwalk is a large-scale, immersive experience in hemispherical fulldome format. It is an experimental film about humanity’s relationship with the Moon.
Beautiful Moonwalk weaves together literature and science with iconic songs and imagery into a grand audiovisual hyperlink. The film characterizes our placid heavenly neighbor as a living, scintillating force. Stemming from the countless photos which comprise lunar atlases, the Moon shatters into pieces, and then rebuilds itself. It evolves from its familiar pregnant blackness into a lambent, jittering hive of voices and sounds. Moonwalk reminds us of the Moon's ubiquity, compelling us to reconstruct our own personal history of the Moon. This accomplished work reaches beyond the idealized childhood daydreams of the heavens, past the familiar Apollo footage, and into the tender roots of culture which weave throughout our daily personal lives.
© Clea T. Waite 2010
Credits
Concept and Creation
Clea T. Waite
Music Written, Produced and Performed by
Helga Pogatschar
Prizes
IBM Innovation Grand Prize for Creation in Art and Technology 2007
Screenings
2011
IFF'11 Immersive Film Festival 2011
Centro Multimeios de Espinho
Espinho, Portugal
Moonwalk Mashup / Boston CyberArts Festival 2011
Hayden Planetarium
Museum of Science
Boston, USA
with sponsorship from Sky-Skan
DAS Weekend / Transmediale
Planetarium am Insulaner
Berliner Planetarium und Sternwarte Wihelm-Foerster e.V.
Berlin, Germany
Fulldome Fridays
Melbourne Planetarium
Museum Victoria
Melbourne, Australia
Fulldome UK 2011
Thinktank Science Museum,
Birmingham, UK
Cyprus Domefestival 2011
American Academy Larnaca
Kition Planetarium & Observatory
Cyprus
2010
fulldome Festival
Zeiss Planetarium
Jena, Germany
http://www.fulldome-festival.de/
Fraunhofer-Institut FIRST
Berlin-Adlershof, Germany
Imiloa Full Dome Film Festival
ASTC Conference
Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai'i
Hilo, Hawai'i, USA
Fulldome UK 2010
i_DAT Immersive Vision Theater
Plymouth, UK
2008
ISEA2008 Singapore
www.isea2008singapore.org/abstract
Post-Museum Singapore
www.post-museum.org/
2007
5th Boston Cyberarts Festival
Boston, USA
http://bostoncyberarts.org
Domefest
Lodestar Astronomy Center
UNM, Albuquerque, USA
http://www.domefest.org
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Harvard University
Cambridge, USA
http://www.radcliffe.edu
2005
INSAP V Conference
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum
Chicago, USA
2004
Museum of Transportation and Communication Planetarium
Lucern, Switzerland
Press
NMC Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus
Harvard University Gazette
Support
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Artists in Labs Zurich
Planetarium at the Swiss Museum of Transport and Communication
Skyskan Inc.
Fraunhofer FIRST
GenArts
Distribution
CARL ZEISS AG
© Clea T. Waite 2010