MOONBUG

2009/2010 Feature Documentary Digital. 80 mins

Distributed by Off The Fence, DVD distribution Good Guys

Featuring Photograher Steve Pyke, and the Apollo Team:
Eugene Kranz, Walter Cunningham, Wally Schirra, Buzz Aldrin, Dick Gordon, Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, Frank Borman, Rusty Schweickhart, Fred Haise, Chris Kraft, Eugene Cernan.

“It is a rare and wonderful experience to visit with the men who went to the moon. Steve Pyke has done it and thanks to Nichola Bruce’s compelling film MOONBUG everyone else can come along”
Andrew Chaikin, author of ‘A Man on the Moon’

Producer/ Director/Cinematography/Writer Nichola Bruce
Executive Producer Jo Nolan
Producer Beverley Cook, Michele D’Acosta
Soundtrack: Matt Johnson

Funded by Inbetween Space, Screen South and the UK Film Council's Digital Film Archive Fund supported by the National Lottery.

Screenings include : Houston International Film Festival, See Festival Brighton UK, Auckland Photo Festival NZ. Space Centre Nasa Nov 2012- Jan 2013, New Orleans Photo Alliance USA 2013, Milan Photo Festival Italy 2013

Awards:
Special Jury Remi Award
Houston International Film Festival 2011

MOONBUG - EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS

The Moonbug project includes a major touring exhibition which brings to life one of the greatest achievements of the twentieth century, with photography, moving image and original artefacts of space exploration.

It is a collaboration by leading photographer Steve Pyke MBE, award-winning film-maker Nichola Bruce, and Alastair Fairley, co-ordinator of the Fairley Archive of Space Exploration (FASE).

Moving Image Installation

‘Dust’ Single screen. Colour. Sound. Continuous Loop. Digital, 16.9

‘You have to go there to see it’
Moving image portrait. Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut
Single screen. Colour. Sound. Continuous Loop. Digital, 16.9

‘Oldest man to go into space’
Launch of Discovery, with John Glenn, Astronaut
Single screen. Colour. Sound. Continuous Loop. Digital, 16.9

‘You realise your never gonna go back’
Moving image portrait. Eugene Cernan, Astronaut
Single screen. Colour. Sound. Continuous Loop. Digital, 16.9

Or seen as Triptych screen. Colour. Sound. Continuous Loop. Digital, 16.9

EVENTS

2013 APOLLO REMEMBERED
New Orleans Photo Alliance,
New Orleans,
USA

2012-2013 THE END OF APOLLO
NASA, Houston. USA

Nichola Bruce, Steve Pyke, and Alastair Fairley
Fairley Archive of Space Exploration.
Screen projection, Photographs and artefacts

2009
MAN ON THE MOON
Independent Photographer’s Gallery, UK

Nichola Bruce, Steve Pyke, and Alastair Fairley
Fairley Archive of Space Exploration.
4 Screen projection, Photographs and artefacts

2002
IT’S WRONG TO WISH ON SPACE HARDWARE
The Gardner Arts Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Group Exhibition
Single Screen projection and Photographs

Photoworks, South East Arts, Regional Arts Lottery Programme.
Book published by Photoworks

Links:
Moonbug website
Steve Pyke
Steve Pyke at Johnson Space Centre, Houston
Man on the moon touring exhibition