Fulldome projection, digital video. 2010
Sound by Helga Pogatschar. 22 min.
A large-scale, immersive experience in fulldome format, Moonwalk is an experimental film about the Moon combining art and science.
The film embodies a history of humanity’s relationship with the Moon. The Moon represents many things, from the forefront of scientific exploration to the most ancient of archetypal myths. It was the peaceful battleground of the Cold War and will be a junction point to Mars in the near future. The Moon inspires love and lunacy, influences werewolves and the tides. Recipient of prayers, poems, and songs since the beginning of human consciousness, so recently reached by us for the first time, our Moon is soon never to be the same; is already altered.
The film characterizes this placid heavenly body as a living, scintillating force. Decidedly multicultural, Moonwalk weaves together literature and science with iconic songs and imagery into a grand audiovisual hyperlink.Proceeding from the raw material of countless photos which comprise lunar atlases, the Moon shatters into pieces, and then rebuilds itself. The Moon evolves from it’s familiar pregnant blackness to a jittering hive of voices and sounds. The film 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. The film reminds us of the Moon’s ubiquity, compelqling us to reconstruct our own personal history of the Moon.Watching Moonwalk we are reminded, as if for the first time, of the power, presence, and emotional gravity the Moon commands.*
Moonwalk is an experimental, poetic film with its focus on astronomical themes which uses the exceptional fulldome format for its immersiveness, it’s expansive scope, and the visceral presence of the space to create a rare science-art film and installation.
