Taiwan fakes a moon landing to fix a nation. What could go wrong?
In 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Despite all the conspiracy theories around it, The US successfully showed the world what a powerful country can accomplish. 50 years later, people in Taiwan are struggling between an identity crisis and economic fluctuations, hoping for something or someone that would save the day. This desire is why you are hired to be a national hero – the very first Taiwanese who lands on the moon.
Direction
Seamless blend of rotoscope and archival footage
Writing
Sharp satire that stings harder with each year
Director
Marco Lococo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during rising Taiwan-China tensions, the film weaponizes space race nostalgia to critique how small nations manufacture grandeur. The moon landing becomes a metaphor for Taiwanese sovereignty itself—aspirational, contested, desperately performative.
Directors Lococo and Hsu rotoscoped actual 1969 broadcast footage, then replaced Armstrong with a Taiwanese everyman—blurring which footage is 'authentic' and questioning who gets to own historical moments.
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