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50th Anniversary of Moon Landing

For All Mankind : 50th Anniversary of Moon Landing (Dir Al Reinert / Brian Eno Soundtrack)

Dir: Al Reinert (US), (1989), 80 minutes

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Sun 21 July 2019 // 19:00 / Cinema

Tickets: £7/5

Twenty years after the July 1969 Apollo 11 space landing this documentary brought to a wider public the extraordinary human achievements involved. Filmmaker Al Reinert went into the NASA vaults to create this original, extraordinary compendium of their journeys and experiences and hinted at the amazing footage that NASA held more of, which would go onto feature in the recent 50th anniversary documentary.

Assembled from hundreds of hours of the astronauts' own footage shot on 16mm, with a soundtrack made up of their memories and a specially composed score by Brian Eno, the film takes the form of one journey to the moon and back again, building with elegant simplicity and exquisite construction to create an overwhelming vision of human endeavour and miraculous experience.

For All Mankind is at once intimate and awe-inspiring buoyed with a sublime ambient soundtrack. Screened in the comfort of our very own volunteer run and built cinema 50 years, to the day, since the first moon landing.  

PLUS! In the bar...Moonshot/Moonrock/Moonquake (2015) a trilogy of films (originally commissioned for Baltic 39's The Moon On A Stick) charting the Moon landings through contemporary science documentaries cut'n'pasted by space nerd film geek Daniel P A Wallder aka The Phenomenologically Irreducible Dyad