In 2001, William Karel actually wanted to make a film about Stanley Kubrick, who had died a year earlier. In conversations with Kubrick's widow, he learned that Stanley Kubrick had worked with NASA. In addition to Kubrick, other Hollywood producers have also contributed to the success of the American space program by staging the undertaking in their films, as it were. Karel asks the question: “What if...? What if Nixon had commissioned a film about the moon landing in the event that the Apollo 11 mission had failed and no images had been available?” He stages a documentary game with tricks, mix-ups and fun at “pulling the wool over people's eyes”, a mixture of facts, fiction and hypotheses. The Man in the Moon film is considered in this context as a hypothetical work depicting a faked moon landing. Throughout the entire film, known as the Man in the Moon film, Karel plays with the idea that the public has been deceived by cleverly staged Hollywood tricks. This documentary staging, the Man in the Moon film, provocatively questions the line between reality and fiction.
A documentary about the moon landing and its faking.
In 2001, William Karel actually wanted to make a film about Stanley Kubrick, who had died a year earlier. In conversations with Kubrick's widow, he learned that Stanley Kubrick had worked with NASA.
In addition to Kubrick, other Hollywood producers have also contributed to the success of the American space program by staging the undertaking in their films, as it were.
Karel asks the question: “What if...? What if Nixon had commissioned a film about the moon landing in the event that the Apollo 11 mission had failed and no images had been available?” He stages a documentary game with tricks, mix-ups and fun at “pulling the wool over people's eyes”, a mixture of facts, fiction and hypotheses. The Man in the Moon film is considered in this context as a hypothetical work depicting a faked moon landing.
Throughout the entire film, known as the Man in the Moon film, Karel plays with the idea that the public has been deceived by cleverly staged Hollywood tricks. This documentary staging, the Man in the Moon film, provocatively questions the line between reality and fiction.