Story about Encounters at the End of the World / 世界尽头的奇遇 / 冰旅记事 / 在世界尽头相遇
Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the contin...
Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the character living there.
'Werner Herzog' takes his camera to Antarctica where we meet the odd men and women who have dedicated their lives to furthering the cause of science in treacherous condition. A scientist studies neutrinos, which are everywhere, yet elusive; he liken them to spirits. A researcher's nighttime performance art includes contorting her body into a luggage bag. A survival guide teaches his students to survive white-out condition by wearing cartoon-face buckets over their heads. Animal researcher milk mother seals as part of their study. Volcanologists offer advice on what to do when a volcano erupts. A pipefitter shows us the anomaly in his hands that he says are a sign he descended from Atzec royalty. A former Colorado banker drives what he has christened Ivan the Terra Bus. An underwater diver shows his colleagues DVDs of apocalyptic sci-fi films like Them!. And -- though Herzog declares he's not "making another film about penguin" -- we meet a penguin researcher who anwer the ...