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The End Of Time
Hugh Bollinger
/ Categories: Archive Selection, Animals, Environmental, conservation, science, Marine Life, Media, video, Plants, Sustainability, design

The End Of Time

The End of Time graphic (credit: Peter Mettler)
 
To watch Peter Mettler's ethnographic and audacious documentary, The End of Time is a disparate and experimental treatment of the human concept of time. His narrative roles the past and future into a kaleidoscopic present. Besides presenting a viewer with one of the few interesting depictions of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, Mettler offers captivating cinematography of the natural world; sunlight latticed by a thin canopy of trees; the slow, grumbling, vibrant creep of a lava flow; or a colony of voracious ants collaborating to move and kill their ailing prey. Reminiscent of Terrance Malick's The Tree of Life, the filmmaker asks you to step in this imagery for long periods (an obvious consequence of Mettler's subject). Watching, say, a lava flow for five minutes instead of a T.V.-friendly duration (e.g. 10 seconds)...I was surprised by what I had missed. You might be too. Reilly Capps.
 

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Tags: documentary filmfuturistPeter MettlerThe End of Timevisionaryexperimental filmblending the past and futureCERNLarge Hadron Collider

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