A Trip to the Moon
Yildiz Müge
After a hundred years of George Melies’ A Trip to the Moon, I revisited the idea of space travel. I edited 16mm NASA Apollo Missions footage with archival footage to express my feelings about the human aspect of space travel and life in general.
Production Year
2016
Duration
00:10:17
Tyyppi
Asiasana
analogy, found footage, media art, Moon, space flights, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Original Title
A Trip to the Moon
English Title
A Trip to the Moon
Production Countries
Turkey
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Müge Yildiz (Author), Müge Yildiz (Cinematographer), Müge Yildiz (Director), Müge Yildiz (Editor), Müge Yildiz (Producer), Müge Yildiz (Script), Müge Yildiz (Sound Design)
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Müge Yıldız is a Turkish artist-filmmaker and researcher currently based in Finland. She received the Finnish Cultural Foundation Grant to pursue her doctoral research at Aalto University, Department of Art and Media.
Previously she waso awarded the Finland Scholarship to study Visual Cultures, Curating, and Contemporary Art (ViCCA) at Aalto University School of Arts, Design, and Architecture in Espoo, where she completed her MA. Earlier in her academic journey, she studied Cinema and Philosophy at Galatasaray University in Istanbul, Turkey, and expanded her education through cinema courses as an Erasmus exchange student at Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle in France.