Encounters at the End of the WorldU

German maverick Werner Herzog continues his investigations into man’s relationship with nature in this characteristically quirky yet profound portrait of the inhabitants of the McMurdo Research Station in the South Pole. Who are these men and women who choose to live in extreme Antarctic conditions, shunning society at large, he asks? Well, they’re a mixed bag of scientists, handymen and restless souls, among them a much-travelled biologist whose party piece involves being zipped up inside a suitcase. While many might brand these people eccentrics, Herzog prefers the term ‘professional dreamers’. To him they are seers, aware of what the modern world still refuses to confront: that nature is very likely to shake off mankind and renew itself – ‘the end of the world’ has a double meaning here.

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