The first landing on the moon by the Americans in 1969 was a spectacular event not least because it was broadcast live on television, thus becoming a collective experience. For Apollojest, Jim Pomeroy - who in other works has entered into a critical debate with the eagerness for technological progress - has produced a stereographic video in the form of a satirical slide show with a voice-over. Following the copyright warnings on video cassettes he explains the concept behind the work, namely to question the authority of contemporary myth-building. To do this Pomeroy makes use of a discrepancy between the visual and tonal levels: a retelling of the events of the space flight, its implications and the speculations around it, is accompanies by urban images. When the voice-over talks about radar antennae the viewer sees basketball nets; wickerwork chairs stand in for the command centre, a large puddle for the Atlantic Ocean. Nixon congratulates the astronauts for their contribution to peace and freedom. Pomeroy adds: “Nixon left shortly afterwards to continue work toward America’s role in the history of science for peace and freedom in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand..Apollo Jest is a cynical commentary on the political schizophrenia of the USA and the presentation of events in the media, a critique still relevant today.