4 Nov 2009
Director: Werner Herzog
USA
2007
99 min
This is a fascinating and visually entrancing documentary by the veteran filmmaker Werner Herzog. The filmmaker travels to the Antarctica community of McMurdo Station. The station is the headquarters of the National Science Foundation. In the Antarctic summer it is home to eleven hundred men and women who have dedicated themselves to scientific study in this hostile landscape. Over the course of his film Herzog examines some of the insightful and sometimes weird experiences of the marine biologists, physicists and truck drivers who work there. A study of human nature set against the awe-inspiring backdrop of the natural world.