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The End of Time

2012 1 h 53 min
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Visionary filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on the elusive subject of time, and once again seeks to film the unfilmable on a journey that takes him to a particle accelerator in Switzerland and lava flows in Hawaii, disintegrating inner-city Detroit and a Hindu funeral rite near the place of Buddha’s enlightenment. Mettler dares to dream the movie of the future while also immersing us in the wonder of the everyday.

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Visionary filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on the elusive subject of time, and once again seeks to film the unfilmable on a journey that takes him to a particle accelerator in Switzerland and lava flows in Hawaii, disintegrating inner-city Detroit and a Hindu funeral rite near the place of Buddha’s enlightenment. Mettler dares to dream the movie of the future while
also immersing us in the wonder of the everyday.

Psychology and Psychiatry All subjects
  • director
    Peter Mettler
  • script
    Peter Mettler
  • producer
    Gerry Flahive
    Cornelia Seitler
    Ingrid Veninger
    Brigitte Hofer

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Ages 16 to 18
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Ethics and Religious Culture - Religious Diversity/Heritage Media Education - Documentary Film Technology Education - Science and Technology
The End of Time is filmmaker Peter Mettler’s poetic investigation into the philosophical, scientific, environmental and human dimensions of time. Travelling from Switzerland’s CERN laboratory to the hypnotic lava flows of Hawaii, Mettler ponders the incomprehensible. Is time just a perception? Can we slow it down or speed it up? When did time become money? Lucid, expansive concepts of time are articulated by physicists, techno-musicians, Buddhist scholars and ecologists. This expressive meditation roams between science and art, wonder and doom, the known and the unfathomable. The result is a profound experience, an opportunity to reflect upon the biggest questions about the human condition, the future, and that which exists beyond our physical and spiritual limits.
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