Dark Side of the Moon
French director William Karel’s ‘mockumentary’ Dark Side of the Moon (2002) demonstrates that documentaries always show the truth of the creator.
In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, said, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
However, there were skeptics like the French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard
“What we saw was not filmed on the moon, but in Hollywood! It was Werner von Braun,
And therefore, NASA decided to enroll Stanley Kubrick, who, out of gratitude, was rewarded with a unique set of NASA lenses, which he used a few years later for his film Barry Lyndon
Among various interviews, we also see Kubrick’s widow have her say. “Stanley had always had a fascination with space travel, and his science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey
Kubrick went to Hollywood to build a giant set, which was to represent the Cape Canaveral launch site, where the moon rocket would be launched into space.
“We had to,” says one person involved, “because we were afraid that the Russians would beat us to it.” And yes, if you look at the images as if Kubrick made them, and you see Armstrong hopping on the moon, then you may start to see the hand of the director. Now, how about the American flag waving smugly while there is no air, so also no wind, on the moon?
Moreover, says an expert, extreme temperature changes on the moon would have ensured that the camera would be inoperable. In short, there is no doubt that the man on the moon was a hoax. And yes, now we understand why Neil Armstrong never wanted to give interviews!
None of the interviewees knew that William Karel would use their quotes for a film of this scope – they all thought the interview was for another documentary. So Karel shows that you can go in all directions with your recorded material. Mockumentary
