stories to tell

Carmine 2022-01-15 08:01:27

In addition to the unique creatures and scenery of Antarctica, this film is more concerned with what each individual person is doing and the story they experienced came to Antarctica. I think it is these stories that make this film more moving.

how did he/she end up in this place?


The philosopher driving a forklift said:
"I think that its a logical place to find each other because this place works almost as a natural selection for people that have this intention to jump off the margin of the map, and we all meet here where all the lines of the map converge.

I think there is a fair amount of the population here which are full time travellers and part time workers, these are the professional dreamers. Through them the great cosmic dreams come into fruition. Because the universe dreams through our dreams, and I think that there is many different ways for the reality to bring itself forward, and dreaming is definitely one of these ways. "The

director's narration said:
"Those few who have experienced the world under the frozen sky often speak of it as going down into the cathedral."

The linguist
who takes care of the greenhouse said: "if you take everybody who's not tied down, they all sort of fall down to the bottom of the planet. We all at loose ends and here we are together. PhDs washing dishes and, linguists on a continent with no language ... "

there are mountains running towards the penguins to die
even if people caught him and bought him back to the colony, he would immediately head right back for the mountains

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Extended Reading
  • Catharine 2022-03-16 09:01:06

    This is really a strange documentary, sending a strange message of despair. The electronic narration almost like a robot, the man who came to Antarctica because of escape, the scientist who has been here for too long and has been autistic and no longer willing to speak, slowed down the rhythm of countless shots, ghostly aquatic creatures, a metaphor of prayer, Theological soundtrack, and the penguin who blindly hunted inland without going back to the garden or going to the beach to hunt; in the end, we will only disappear like dinosaurs

  • Rowan 2022-04-22 07:01:47

    Go off the beaten track to photograph people's stories. Awe of life, nature, and dreams.

Encounters at the End of the World quotes

  • Stefan Pashov: And I think there's a fair amount of the population here who're full time travelers and part time workers. So, yes those are the professional dreamers, they dream all the time. And I think, through them the great cosmic dreams come into fruitition because the universe dreams to our dreams. I think that there is many different ways for the reality to bring itself forward, and dreaming is definitely one of those ways.

  • Doug MacAyeal: Might as well be on a piece of the South Pole but yet I'm actually adrift in the ocean, a vagabond floating in the ocean, and below my feet I can feel the rumble of the iceberg, I can feel the change, the cry of the iceberg, as it's screeching and as it's bouncing off the seabed, as it's steering the ocean currents, as it's beginning to move north. I can feel that sound coming up through the bottoms in the my feet and telling me that this iceberg is coming north. That's my dream.