The majority of geographically opposite places, antipodes, are in the middle of the sea. Awarded at festivals for many of his documentaries, filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky’s newest documentary has been filmed at six antipodes that are located on dry land.
In Entre Rios, in Argentina, men collect custom duties from villagers crossing the flowing river on the provincial border, while in Shanghai, in China, cars scuttle down the motorways and people weave about busily in the middle of a haze of exhaust fumes. In the shade of a baobab tree in Botswana’s Kubu and in the middle of the lava fields on Hawaii’s Big Island life is both hot and unhurried.
In the film that pampers all the senses, the images follow each other like living landscape paintings. Everything moves, now and forever.
