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245 _aEncounters at the end of the world /
_c Werner Herzog; Henry Kaiser; Erik Nelson; Peter Zeitlinger; Joe Bini.
_hVideorecording.
260 _a[Silver Spring, Maryland] :
_aDiscovery Communications, Chatsworth, CA :
_bDistributed by Image Entertainment.
_c[2007]
300 _a2 videodiscs (approximately 101 min.) :
_bsound, color ;
_c 4 3/4 in.
500 _aOriginally produced as a documentary motion picture in 2007.
500 _aDisc 1 is missing
505 _a Disc 1: Encounters at the end of the world -- Why? -- Ivan -- Professional dreamers -- Survival school -- Seal scientists -- Spirit -- Dive camp -- Under the frozen sky -- Celebration -- Stories to tell -- Absurd quests -- Penguins -- Mount Erebus -- South Pole shrine -- Exploring the volcano -- Neutrino project -- End credits ; Special features: Commentary with director Werner Herzog, producer Henry Kaiser and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger [audio only]; Featurettes Under the ice (36 min.); Over the ice (10 min.); Dive locker interview (18 min.); South Pole exorcism (12 min.); Seals & men (4 min.); Trailer (2 min.). Disc 2: Jonathan Demme interviews Werner Herzog [at the Museum of the Moving Image, NYC, June 5, 2008] / producers, Michelle Caputo, Shannon Hartman ; Art & Industry (67 min.).
508 _aEdited by Joe Bini ; director of photography, Peter Zeitlinger ; music composed by Henry Kaiser & David Lindley.
511 _aNarrated by Werner Herzog.
520 _a This film, like many from director Werner Herzog, is a poem of oddness and beauty. Investigating the lives of the "professional dreamers" who conduct research at the bottom of the world in Antarctica, he finds a happily cynical lot, who regard climate change and the potential extinction of Homo sapiens in rather a different light than most people. They study penguins, seals, volcanoes, miniscule underwater
650 _a Research
_xAntarctica.
650 _aResearch teams
_x Antarctica.
650 _a Human beings
_vEffect of climate on
_xAntarctica.
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