English subtitles for this video are available by clicking the ‘Settings’ button on the bottom right of the video player. In 2015, the Uruguayan filmmaker Agustín Ferrando Trenchi assigned himself a peculiar mission on a whim – he wanted to film a plane crossing in front of the Moon serendipitously, without planning for it. As he discusses in this short film, he quickly discovered how difficult a task that was.
As the years went by, he captured many moments of ‘pure beauty’, including the various ways the Moon can manifest in the night sky, and striking shots of all manner of other objects silhouetted against it, but no plane. Narrating the footage he shot over 10 years, Ferrando Trenchi describes the learning and joy inherent to his task, even as finding just the right angle to complete his mission long eluded him, until – well, you’ll just have to watch to find out.
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