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The Arc of Oblivion

Original title: The Arc of Oblivion
Year: 2023
Running time: 105 min.
Country: United States
Director: Ian Cheney
Cast: Documentary
Producer: Wicked Delicate Films
Genre: Documentary | Movie Documentary
Synopsis: The strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory through a filmmaker's quixotic quest to build an ark in Maine.

Critics' reviews

"Two hours isn't enough time for all that it wants to do, but the movie knows this and knows that moviemaking is no different from anything else in that respect"

Matt Zoller Seitz: rogerebert.com
"'The Arc of Oblivion' is fascinating as a personal adventure for not staying in one place very long"

John Fink: The Film Stage
"For such an existential question as whether the human urge to make a mark against the entropy of the physical world is folly, Ian Cheney's 'Arc of Oblivion' takes a pretty cheery tone"

Lina Fisher: Austin Chronicle
"Ian Cheney explores how humans are determined to leave their trace on the earth (...) A likeably offbeat and disarmingly self-aware documentary essay should leave a trace in the minds of receptive viewers"

Neil Young: Screendaily

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User history

The Arc of Oblivion

2023

Ian Cheney

Voor elkaar gemaakt

2017

Martijn Heijne