For All Mankind
Location
JAAC 4094 Conference Center
Presentation Type
Event
Start Date
19-9-2019 7:00 PM
Description
Reinert’s widely acclaimed 1989 documentary is an amazing blending of original NASA footage (much of it taken by the astronauts themselves) of all the successful Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972, voice-overs drawn from interviews with many of the Apollo astronauts and music by composer Brian Eno. While the final product presents the story as though it were one single mission to the moon, in fact it is a collage of the entire lunar program. Originally conceived purely as a blending of Eno’s music and footage Reinert culled from 6 million feet of NASA footage, the documentary in its final form shapes that into a narrative told by the “men from the planet Earth [who] …set foot on the moon. They came in peace for all mankind.” Discussion will follow.
Recommended Citation
Monteverde, Maggie, "For All Mankind" (2019). Humanities Symposium. 1.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2019/ff2019/1
For All Mankind
JAAC 4094 Conference Center
Reinert’s widely acclaimed 1989 documentary is an amazing blending of original NASA footage (much of it taken by the astronauts themselves) of all the successful Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972, voice-overs drawn from interviews with many of the Apollo astronauts and music by composer Brian Eno. While the final product presents the story as though it were one single mission to the moon, in fact it is a collage of the entire lunar program. Originally conceived purely as a blending of Eno’s music and footage Reinert culled from 6 million feet of NASA footage, the documentary in its final form shapes that into a narrative told by the “men from the planet Earth [who] …set foot on the moon. They came in peace for all mankind.” Discussion will follow.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Society and the Arts & Sciences