CNN has this slidehow on odd energy sources in the movies, and while some may seem completely impossible (Dilithium crystals) , nice to see MOON there as a representative of future energy solutions through nuclear fusion that may actually be possible within our lifetime… Continue reading
If you are in or around the Clapham area of London at 14:30 on Sunday 13th November, then you might like to treat yourself to a screening of Duncan Jones’ MOON at the Clapham Picturehouse.
Being shown as part of the CineSci6 season, other films you may want to go along to are Metropolis, Forbidden Planet, Weird Science, Robocop & Momento.
Each film will be followed by drinks & discussion, with expert input in to help get the most out of each film.
Pop over to the CineSci site and follow the #CineSci6 hashtag & @PubSci on Twitter for further details.
Since the release of MOON in 2009, there has been the odd request for a MOON merchandise. Unfortunately, there is no official merchandise available at the moment.
No official t-shirts, posters, badges, patches, mugs, robotic assistants, flowbees or sealed bags of beans exist. We occasionally manage to find some promotional bits & bobs to send out to competitions winners, or auction off for charity. But nothing you can actually order online, or go buy from a shop.
BUT WAIT! For MOON Director Duncan Jones has just told this:
There’s a CHANCE we may finally get to sell Moon posters & Collectors toys.
Basically we need to show there are at least 500 fans out there who would buy a Gerty desktop toy or a collectors Sam piece.
So, we’d like to get an idea of how many of you would be interested in buying some MOON gear, and what you’d like to be able to buy if it were possible. Please complete the poll below, and leave a comment, because I’ll be doing a random draw on the comments on Friday 16th at 23:00, and sending the winner a MOON promo T-Shirt (S/M or L) and a set of 4 MOON patches.
MOON continues to inspire others to create, and we are always more than happy to share those creations with you. Just last night, Cardiff band Caesers Rome got in touch with MOON Director Duncan Jones to let him know they had just released the video for their debut single ‘Earth From Space’ which has been directly influenced musically, and visually by Duncan’s 2009 debut feature… Continue reading
Through the process of helping to promote MOON since 2009, I’ve been very lucky to have got to know Art Director Hideki Arichi. Not one to blow his own trumpet, I thought it was about time we nailed him down to an interview, to let you all know a bit more about Hideki, his work in film, and his ongoing developments in the world of art. So without further ado, let’s have a word with the Artist, printmaker, Art Director for film, stage technician, film maker, actor, & traveller… Continue reading
Source Code opens in China today, one of only 20 foreign films to open on the Chinese mainland due to a quota system currently in place. Things may change in the future, with up to 1,600 new cinema screens being added per year to service a growing appetite for both local, and foreign films (1). Even GERTY has seen the potential, with actor Kevin Spacey starring in entirely locally funded feature ‘Inseparable‘, where 50% of the dialogue will be in Mandarin (2).
So it seems, for the moment, Source Code is lucky to be one of the 20 foreign films screening this year, and thanks to meeting new friends on Twitter, it may be that Chinese fans have had something to do with it’s selection, and one fan in particular, who has been supporting Duncan Jones work since the 2009 release of MOON… Continue reading
Great MOON poster by Adam Rabalais tweeted to the films Director Duncan Jones earlier this evening, who commented:
Love it! Gerty’s face always puts a smile on mine.
Adam has been kind enough to give us permission to share his version of the movie poster. Click image to go to a much larger version, and have a look at the rest of Adam’s work, stunning stuff. Especially like this Nosferatu…
Sumit Purohit is an Independent film maker from India, who recently tweeted a lovely sketch of a still from MOON to Director Duncan Jones.
As usual we like to get the artist to tell us a bit about how they became inspired to create artwork based on Duncan’s films. So we got in touch, and Sumit has very kindly sent us a copy of the first sketch, and another one as well! Click the images for full size versions.
Growing up with a father who is an astrophysicist, the outer space at times, feels closer than mundane reality. You are always eager to hear stories, myths, legends, facts, equations set in ‘that world’. And so, everything felt right about Moon from the moment I saw its trailer online, back in 2009: Sam Rockwell, a new young director in Duncan Jones, an indie low budget sci-fi set on backdrop of Moon. For any aspiring film maker like me, it felt good to see that such a film could be made within with very limited resources.
I saw Moon in midair- literally. On a flight to Dubai. I would have loved to watch it on the cinema screen but could not resist the temptation. Am glad I did that, as Moon sadly, never got a theatrical release in India.
I have been sketching frames, inspired from frames of films that I find riveting. I try to capture the essence of the film through those and somehow choose scenes that are of pivotal nature to the plot. Terrence Malick’s films are what inspired me to start sketching like this. Malick’s films are visual poetry in the way they weave the metaphysical realm into each frame. I could pause any and sketch it.
Moon was a very obvious choice in this series: a story of a man employed to work on a lunar station, alone, for three years. I sketched one frame of the interiors of the space station and the other is on the surface of the moon, both trying to capture contrasting moods of the film. What attracted me to sketch Moon was the fact that even with a visually sparse environment, Jones manages to conjure up a visually rich experience. In parts it reminded me of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Make sure you pop over to Sumit’s site for more examples of his fantastic film still sketches
Film maker, photographer and musician Adrien Dezalay recently popped up his own version of the credits to Duncan Jones’ 2009 debut feature MOON so we thought you might like to have a look at an alternative vision, as Adrien explains:
A few years ago, I watched MOON in a theatre in London. Back home, I could still hear the Clint Mansell score in my head. That’s when I thought of making a graphic video related to the movie. The small budget / minimalist picture, a bit like Vincenzo Natali’s CUBE, was perfect to work with because I just wanted to use lines and three colors. I find very hard to explain art, but I’d say that the infinite cloning process in the movie is represented by these lines and the red ones are clones like Sam Bell. Well – something like that!
** MASSIVE THANKS TO CHRISTOPHER WILSON FOR HIS WINNING BID **
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