The world as we now know it simply isnt able to provide equivalent heroes to men like
Yuri Gagarin, nor is it able to replicate more abrupt and moving paradigm shifts in the human consciousness than his first manned trip outside of our own world provided. Driven by two ruthless dictatorships both eager to demonstrate to their populations the power of their sham visions of freedom, and at incredible human and financial cost, the physical achievements in the space race between the USSR and the USA in the 1960s make humanitys contemporary achievements seem positively feeble by comparison. Now, documentary film maker and scientist
Dr Christopher Riley is set to see the culmination of a remarkable project to relive that flight in his film First Orbit. As part of an Anniversary film of Gagarins 108 minute orbit, Riley will attempt to recreate the cosmonauts experience by using footage shot in collaboration with International Space Station cameraman Paolo Nespoli to try and recreate the journey as closely as possible. The film will come replete with Gagarins flight voice recordings as well as a sweeping original score written exclusively for the 50th anniversary by
Phillip Shepard. This first person POV simulation will be interspersed by selected news footage of history being made. The film will be released on youtube and for download
from the homepage on the anniversary date, April 12th. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC2Ea0So2CY