Ones & Zeros

Werner Herzog’s latest film, Encounters at the End of the World is, as he puts it, “not another movie about penguins”.  It’s more a collection of amazing curiosities, in both the people and landscapes he captures.  Antarctica is a seemingly alien landscape of severe conditions and fantastic formations that most will never experience, save for those few nomadic souls that Herzog finds here on his journey.  The people themselves; philosophers, scientists, life-long travellers, are equally as interesting as the land they inhabit in their stories of what brought them to this end of the world.  It is a beautiful film, sometimes awestruck, sometimes amusing (who else but Herzog could find a way to use the words “abomination” and “aerobics” in the same sentence in a movie about Antarctica?), but ultimately compassionate for those living in the frozen wasteland, and what they have to say about humanity itself.

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