The Art Of Apollo 10½ Is A Space Age Wonder

It’s kinda flown under the radar a little, maybe because it launched straight to Netfflix, but Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10½ came out earlier this month and is, if nothing else, a very cool visual record of a very certain point in time.

This is of course very much Linklater’s thing, from Dazed and Confused to Everybody Wants Some, but this movie is a little bit different. Because it’s animated, everything just feels that bit more exaggerated, and vibrant; watch the trailer below and some of the very 60s things you’ll see, like cracking open the lid of a bottle on an ancient soda machine, look like the kind of wonderfully deliberate animated sequence of an otherwise mundane act you’d see in, say, a Miyazaki film.

I love it. Below you’ll find a collection of works from a number of different artists who worked on the film, much of it environmental art and backgrounds that help set the scene that this is a deeply 1969 movie. You’ll find links to each artist’s portfolio in their names.

Nicoletta Bea

Simon Demaret

Morgan Prost

Svetlana Snezhkova

Maciej Sidorowicz

Léa Pinto

Vincent Bisschop

Michal Lisowski

Lorenzo Natale

Eric Cousin

Tom Jilesen

Jean Leleu

Alex Vaulin