The End of Time
Directed byMilcho Manchevski
CinematographyAlain López Martínez
Edited byKristina Pozenel
Music byIgor Vasilev Novogradska
Release date
  • April 5, 2017 (2017-04-05) (Aspen Shortsfest)
CountriesUnited States
Cuba

The End of Time is a 2017 experimental short by Milcho Manchevski, a U.S.-Cuban co-production.

Background

The End of Time is an experimental film about that one hypnotic moment on a regular, unassuming Tuesday when one realizes that time has stopped and the universe has been sucked into a single smile.

Principal photography took place in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Post-production was completed in New York City and Macedonia. Cinematography by Alain López Martínez, edited by Kristina Pozenel, music and sound design by Igor Vasilev Novogradska, visual effects by Misho Ristov Rex, and color grading by Michael Dwass.

The End of Time premiered at Aspen Shortsfest, recognized as one of the premier Oscar-qualifying short film festivals in the world where it won the Ellen Award.[1][2][3] It has since played a number of international festivals, winning 7 awards, and gaining worldwide distribution.

This is what the critics had to say about The End of Time:
THE END OF TIME is an impressive minimalist phenomenology of time, consciousness and selfhood. Subtle art stratification of the awareness of the duration of a multitude of timelines within a film frame and the distillation of a pure emotion. A sunny Cuban afternoon on a street in San Antonio de los Baños, the fictitious mise-en-scène gradually breaks down, fragmenting into a crystalline pictorial structure with a disrhythmic duration of the whole, a micro-image archipelago with unequal deceleration of the parts. The quest for a fixed point hypnotizes and displaces the normal conditions of the perception of time.

THE END OF TIME, a winner of the prestigious Ellen Award at one of the most renowned short film festivals in Aspen, as well as the award at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival in Czech Republic, is incredibly attractive cinematic and artistic playfulness, an experimental transcendental journey to something we are very familiar with, but in the same time remains very difficult to grasp, to those rare and timeless moments when we feel truly ourselves, truly at home.

(Dejan Zdravkov, FFF 2018)

Festivals and awards

Additional Screenings

  • Manchevski's "Dreaming a Wu Yan Poem" art exhibition - Shanghai,China [13]
  • Manchevski's Master Class at Herceg Novi International Film Festival, Montenegro
  • Milcho Manchevski retrospective at the International Motivational Film Festival - Bridge of Arts, Rostov on Don, Russia
  • Kino Palais Buenos Aires
  • Kultivator Kino Karposh

References

  1. ↑ "Aspen Film Announces Award Winners for 26Th Annual Aspen Shortsfest". 10 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "The End of Time". Aspen Film. March 14, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ Kurir.mk (March 15, 2017). "Manchevski's The End of Time to have its premiere at Aspen Shortsfest 2017 - Macedonian News Agency". Macedonian News Agency | Kurir.mk. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Aspen Film Announces Award Winners for 26Th Annual Aspen Shortsfest". 10 April 2017.
  5. ↑ "Arizona International Film Festival : The End of Time".
  6. ↑ "The End of Time | Palm Springs International Film Festival".
  7. ↑ "The End of Time / Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2017 (SSFF & ASIA 2017)". shortshorts.org. Archived from the original on 2017-05-02.
  8. ↑ "Festival international du film de Nancy - The end of time". www.fifnl.com. Archived from the original on 2017-08-07.
  9. ↑ "Ibero-America – FICBUEU". www.ficbueu.com. Archived from the original on 2016-08-28.
  10. ↑ "The End of Time".
  11. ↑ "BIFF - Buffalo International Film Festival". buffalofilm.org. Archived from the original on 2017-09-29.
  12. ↑ "Ji.hlava IDFF | Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival".
  13. ↑ "'Dreaming a Wu Yan Poem' | iDEALShanghai". www.idealshanghai.com. Archived from the original on 2017-09-29.
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