Christopher Riley is the Director and Producer – First Orbit. He worked on data from NASA’s Spacelab 1 project, flown on an early Shuttle mission, for his Ph.D. at Imperial College, London before embarking on a career making science documentaries for the BBC.
He has worked with NASA’s film archive for the past fifteen years on projects ranging from the BBC’s landmark series ‘The Planets’ to the highly acclaimed feature documentary film ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’.
He created his first video installation from this material for the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing, during the summer of 2009. ‘Apollo Raw and Uncut’ played in gallery spaces in Europe and North America; the first time the entire 23 hours of Apollo’s mission flight film archive had been screened in public.
‘First Orbit’ was conceived as Riley’s second major installation film and is in the tradition of experimental documentaries like Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi.
He has worked with NASA’s film archive for the past fifteen years on projects ranging from the BBC’s landmark series ‘The Planets’ to the highly acclaimed feature documentary film ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’.
He created his first video installation from this material for the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing, during the summer of 2009. ‘Apollo Raw and Uncut’ played in gallery spaces in Europe and North America; the first time the entire 23 hours of Apollo’s mission flight film archive had been screened in public.
‘First Orbit’ was conceived as Riley’s second major installation film and is in the tradition of experimental documentaries like Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi.