From deep
space to the deep ocean, Werner Herzog’s FIPRESCI
prize winning film is a documentary style sci-
fi fantasy which is a weightlessly enjoyable voyage. It extensively uses archival footage from NASA's STS-34 Space Shuttle mission in 1989 and Henry Kaiser's diving expedition in Antarctica for the National Science Foundation. The cello
music of Ernst Reijseger, paired with Senegalese vocalist Mola Sylla, is blended with the Tenore Cuncordu
de Orosei to effect one of the most relaxing and uplifting films I have seen in a long
time. Like an Attenborough documentary, but with narration from a pissed off alien (Brad Dourif, Gríma Wormtongue of LOTR fame).
By North Utsire
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