Tuesday,
October 23 at 7pm
Encounters
at the End of the World
dir.
Werner Herzog, USA, 2007, digital video, 99 mins, color
Co-presented
by Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
Preceded
by Penn student Michael Highland's screening of As
Real as Your Life.
 There
is a hidden society at the end of the world. One thousand men
and women live together under unbelievably close quarters in
Antarctica, risking their lives and sanity in search of cutting-edge
science. Now, for the first time, an outsider has been admitted.
In his first documentary since Grizzly Man, Werner
Herzog, accompanied only by his cameraman, traveled to Antarctica,
with rare access to the raw beauty and raw humanity of the ultimate
Down Under. Encounters at the End of the World, Herzog’s
latest meditation on nature, explores this land of Fire, Ice
and corrosive Solitude.
As
part of University of Pennsylvania’s Werner Herzog in
Conversation
with
Paul Holdengraber: Was the 20th Century a Mistake?
from Monday, October 22 - Thursday, October 25. More programs
related to this event
at
Cinema
Studies and Slought
Foundation.
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