The Arc of Oblivion
USAdocumentary105'Docs+Science
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.
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- Ian Cheney
An Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award winning documentary filmmaker. He has completed ten feature documentaries, including 'King Corn' (2007), 'The Greening of Southie' (2008), 'The City Dark' (2011), 'The Search for General Tso' (2014), 'Bluespace' 2015), 'The Most Unknown' (2018), 'The Emoji Story' (2019), 'Thirteen Ways' (2019), 'Picture a Scientist' (2020) and 'The Long Coast' (2020). His short films include 'Two Buckets' (2006), 'Truck Farm' (2010), 'The Melungeons' (2013), 'The Smog of the Sea' (2016) and 'The Measure of a Fog' (2017). He received bachelor’s & master’s degrees from Yale University, and an MFA in Film from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. A former MacDowell Fellow&Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. He lives in mid coast Maine.
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