Lift Off Apollo Pavilion
Synopsis
A short film composed of still images and electronic music, capturing the rugged brutalist beauty of Victor Pasmore's Apollo Pavilion, in Peterlee, County Durham. Helliwell composed the soundtrack and took more than 60 photographs of teh concerete structure in January 2020, combining these with animation and stills of NASA Apollo space missions to set the scene.
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