Into Eternity: A Film for the Future
- heavy
- slow-burn
- cold
- epic-stakes
Heavy, slow-burn, measured documentary / disaster, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.
Our read · Into Eternity: A Film for the Future (2010) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, inventive documentary · disaster entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Into Eternity
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