The End of Time (2012)

Explores our perception of time.

Director:

Peter Mettler

Writers:

Alexandra Gill, Peter Mettler

Stars:

Richie Hawtin, Peter Mettler

5 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Richie Hawtin	...	Himself
Peter Mettler	...	Himself (voice)

Storyline

Explores our perception of time.

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Plot Keywords:

time | nature | particle accelerator | concert | funeral | 

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Taglines:

Everything Begins Now

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Genres:

Documentary

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

Switzerland Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 May 2013 (Germany)

Also Known As:

Koniec czasu. Wszystko zaczyna sie teraz

Filming Locations:

Switzerland

Company Credits

Production Co:

Grimthorpe Film, Maximage GmbH, National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

109 min

Sound Mix:

DTS (RCA Sound Recording)

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Does not live up to any of the aspects it's said to

Things this film is not: does not explore time, is not a documentary, is not artistic, is not experimental, is not animation, is not about death, is not sufficiently edited, is not thoughtfully soundtracked. In fact, most sentient folk have long known that "time" does not exist per se. This film makes as much since as trying to render a pseudo-intellectual rendition of the concept of distance. blah.

For those of us old enough to remember the children's game Spirograph, and its younger equivalent Spirotot, much of this 2 hour film is just that. Another major "artistic" unoriginal is the abusive use of slow-motion, as if the simple act of slowing reality down a little made it somehow more "beautiful". Slow motion is fine to document and examine events that are too quick for the human eye, but that's pretty much the limit of its usefulness.

The trouble with this director, also evidenced in some previous films, is he thinks that he has a fantastic eye for beauty and uniqueness, when in reality, the cinematography is cold, uninspired, uninformative, and unoriginal. A reasonably tech savvy elementary school student could produce something of equal impact. He seems to want to be in the same league as Baraka and the Koyaanisqatsi series, but fails on all counts.