Documentary Series at Cottonwood: 'THE ARC OF OBLIVION' (2023)

Join us inside the Cottonwood Center for the Arts as we bring you a brand new documentary from Ian Cheney:

“THE ARC OF OBLIVION”

More info and tickets: https://ifsoc-docs.eventive.org/

ABOUT THE FILM:
THE ARC OF OBLIVION explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace.

Set against the backdrop of the filmmaker’s quixotic quest to build an ark in a field in Maine, the film heads far afield – to salt mines in the Alps, fjords in the Arctic, and ancient libraries in the Sahara – to illuminate the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory.

Playfully weaving stop-motion animation, spellbinding cinematography and fascinating interviews from the director’s inner circle and experts in the fields of science, culture and art – including documentarians Werner Herzog and Kirsten Johnson — THE ARC OF OBLIVION reveals how nature inspires the human drive behind filmmaking.