The Arc of Oblivion

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Memory and the laws of physics remain in perpetual conflict. In fact, everything that has existed and everyone who has lived have been completely forgotten. The same will happen in the future, especially as digital storage media are far less durable than stone or paper. Tormented by this knowledge, Ian Cheney constructs an ark in a Maine meadow, not so much to carry his most precious memories across the ocean of time as to get himself to reflect on what is truly worth saving. Warning: the presence of legendary funnyman Werner Herzog aboard this vessel is a ruse.