One Million Kingdoms

2001 • Directed by

Pierre Huyghe

Animation, Documentary

In Huyghe’s animation, an adolescent girl wanders through a shifting lunar topography and, speaking in a digitally synthesized form of astronaut Neil Armstrong’s voice, delivers a narration blending the actual transmissions from the Apollo 11 mission with excerpts from Jules Verne’s 1864 novel Journey to the Center of the Earth.