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.
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.
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