HCMC – Screening of “Encounters at the End of the World”

Tue 07 May 2013, 7.30 pm
Snap Cafe

From the organizer:

Come to watch the film “Encounters at the End of the World” (99 minutes, Werner Herzog). In this film Herzog once again offers a poignant study of the human psyche amid haunting landscapes. Herzog was first drawn to Antarctica when he saw the underwater footage of his friend Henry Kaiser. In 2007 he was invited to film on the southern icecap by the US agency the National Science Foundation.

Herzog’s Encounters is an alternately mordant and ecstatic portrait of a harsh environment and the people who live there; not oddballs, Herzog insists, but research scientists, philosophers and vulcanologists, who we see peering into viciously active lava fields. There are the expert divers who drill 30ft vertical holes through the icecap to access its frigid, sci-fi underside, and then dive below to film. “These people only seem odd because when you look at the media and magazines, there is this kind of uniformity of people. Down there, you have characters who do not fit into magazines.”

Tickets: FREE (donations for our chosen charity Wildlife at Risk are gladly accepted)

Films do not have English subtitles and are not suitable for children.

A clip from “Encounters at the End of the World”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI3u7g8PPEA[/youtube]