When I was diagnosed with Leukemia on my 24th birthday, I spent the next 3 years on my back in a hospital bed. Unable to physically film for a few years, I would download mass quantities of YouTube footage to make movie trailers and would continue honing my animation skillset at Johns Hopkins. I collected random clips from more than 100 YouTube videos over 3 months, color graded all the footage to match, and integrated some animated footage of a NASA space launch to create this movie trailer for a fictitious blockbuster film I envisioned creating one day called, Dark Side of the Moon.

Dark Side of the Moon explores a conspiracy theory behind the first moon landing. After US President Kennedy prematurely challenges Soviet Russia to the infamous space race and successfully lands three Americans on the moon, NASA’s intelligence is unable to bring them home.  The massive cover-up of NASA's deadly mission by US government officials casts a dark cloud over Kennedy’s presidency and the US government for years to come.

In creating the trailer for Dark Side of the Moon I joined modern CGI renderings with vintage archival footage to cultivate a sense of novelty amidst past historical footage. I deemed this form of cinema: "historical novelty."