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Created in 1999, the Project Apollo Archive is a digital library of images related to NASA’s manned lunar landings. In Apollo Missions, the US filmmaker Tim Harrison gives fresh new life to still images from the collection, treating them as a flip book-style animation. Featuring a spot-on score from the US rock band Built By Snow, this short collage film transforms the pictures from 1961 to 1972 into a dizzying journey from Earth to the Moon, and back again.
Director: Tim Harrison
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