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| David Ainley | ... | Marine Ecologist | |
| Samuel S. Bowser | ... | Cell Biologist | |
| Regina Eisert | ... | Physiologist | |
| Kevin Emery | ... | McMurdo Station Survival School Instructor | |
| Ryan Andrew Evans | ... | McMurdo Station Cook | |
| Ashrita Furman | ... | Multiple World Record Holder | |
| Peter Gorham | ... | Physicist - University of Hawaii | |
| Werner Herzog | ... | Narrator | |
| William Jirsa | ... | McMurdo Station Linguist - Computer Expert | |
| Karen Joyce | ... | Computer Expert | |
| Doug MacAyeal | ... | McMurdo Station Glaciologist (as Douglas MacAyeal) | |
| William McIntosh | ... | Volcanologist - Geochronologist | |
| Olav T. Oftedal | ... | Nutritional Ecologist | |
| Clive Oppenheimer | ... | Volcanologist | |
| David R. Pacheco Jr. | ... | McMurdo Journeyman Plumber | |
| Stefan Pashov | ... | McMurdo Station Forklift Driver | |
| Jan Pawlowski | ... | Zoologist | |
| Scott Rowland | ... | McMurdo Station Transportation Dept | |
| Libor Zicha | ... | McMurdo Station Utility Mechanic |
Directed by | |||
| Werner Herzog | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Werner Herzog | written by | |
Produced by | |||
| Phil Fairclough | .... | executive producer | |
| Dave Harding | .... | executive producer (as David S. Harding) | |
| Julian Hobbs | .... | executive producer | |
| Henry Kaiser | .... | producer | |
| Andrea Meditch | .... | executive producer | |
| Erik Nelson | .... | executive producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Henry Kaiser | |||
| David Lindley | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Peter Zeitlinger | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Joe Bini | |||
Production Management | |||
| Jessica DeJong | .... | production manager | |
Sound Department | |||
| Werner Herzog | .... | sound | |
Visual Effects by | |||
| Christopher Dusendschon | .... | digital imaging supervisor: iO FILM | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Danica Barnes | .... | on-line editor | |
| Bartholomew Burcham | .... | assistant editor | |
| Herrianne Cayabyab | .... | assistant on-line editor | |
| Ryan Delk | .... | first assistant editor | |
| Brian Hutchings | .... | colorist: Alpha Dogs, Inc. | |
Music Department | |||
| Stephen Hart | .... | score mixer | |
| Stephen Hart | .... | score recording engineer | |
Other crew | |||
| Ryan Andrew Evans | .... | production assistant | |
Thanks | |||
| Lloyd Austin | .... | thanks | |
| Samuel S. Bowser | .... | thanks (as Samuel Bowser) | |
| Steve Clabuesch | .... | thanks | |
| Art Devries | .... | thanks | |
| Roger Ebert | .... | dedicatee | |
| Guy Guthridge | .... | thanks | |
| Elaine Hood | .... | thanks | |
| Philip Kyle | .... | thanks | |
| Rob Robbins | .... | thanks | |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | .... | thanks | |
| Kim Silverman | .... | thanks | |
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I had a chance to see Werner Herzog's latest documentary at the Telluride Film Festival, where it received great buzz and very high praise upon its debut. Herzog informed the audience that he was shown some footage taken by a photographer in Antarctica while doing post-production on Grizzly Man and he was immediately entranced by what he saw. From this he was compelled to visit the continent and shoot some footage of his own, which became Encounters at the End of the World.
The film perfectly balances both gorgeous footage of the continent as well as fascinating interviews and anecdotes of the many researchers and workers of the McMurdo research station. There are many humorous moments, such as a scene in which visitors must go through a follow-the-leader type exercise before being allowed to venture out into the wild. Participants in the exercise must wear buckets adorned with ridiculous caricatures over their heads in order to simulate a whiteout. They must then try to follow each other as a group and find a researcher a distance away. Herzog simply observes as the participants fail over and over to find the researcher, which left the audience laughing for minutes on end. Another excellent scene has Herzog interviewing an expert on penguins, who goes into some of their more bizarre behavior, such when penguins go insane. In both cases, Herzog features striking footage and amusing interviews and narration.
The film fits in well with Herzog's already substantial canon. It is a beautiful look at a beautiful continent populated by a forklift driver with a PhD, a woman who once traveled to South America in a sewage pipe on the back of a truck, researchers who play electric guitars on top of research station to celebrate discovering three new species of aquatic life in one day, and many more. Their stories converge where all the lines on the map meet at the end of the world. Herzog shot the film with a crew of just himself and the camera operator, and the result is a film with some of the most beautiful footage I've ever seen. Do not miss this when it receives general release!