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Friday, Feb 2, 2024
7 PM (99 mins)
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Encounters at the End of the World
As Herzog himself intones, there are no “fluffy penguins” in his film on Antarctica; rather, it explores the dreams and ecstatic realities of the people that have chosen to live in a realm far beyond the ordinary. Geologists, zoologists, divers, divers/guitarists (experimental musician Henry Kaiser!), and others chime in about life at the world’s end, where human civilization is but a blip amidst nature’s awe-inspiring vastness. “A portrait of people in search of the sublime” (Jerry White, Cinema Scope), Encounters “has the quality of a dream: it’s at once vivid and vague, easy to grasp and somehow beyond reach” (Manohla Dargis).
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Werner Herzog
Cinematographer
- Peter Zeitlinger
Print Info
- Color
- 35mm
- 99 mins
Source
- Yale Film Archive
Permission
- Swank Motion Pictures
Event Accessibility
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