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Elsewhere

2002 · 240 min

A patient, contemplative gaze across distant landscapes and quiet lives, immersive and unhurried, rewarding close attention with a sense of shared humanity.

Directed by
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Genres
Documentary
Overview
The year 2000, elsewhere. 12 months. 12 episodes. Weeks, days, single moments of different ways of life. Tradition and change. People of different cultural and geographical background. A film about their life. A journey through voices and sounds from elsewhere, with no commentary added. Landscapes, outlooks on the world, outlooks on life: Desert, snow, valley, jungle, ice, rainforest, stones, swamps, mountains, the sea, forests, a South-Sea atoll. An homage to humanity at the beginning of the 21st century.

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Directed by
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Genres
Documentary
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • nature
  • isolation
  • family
  • memory
Places
  • wilderness
  • countryside
  • sea
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • anthology
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism10
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Cinematography
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Runtime
240 min
Country
Austria
Languages
English, German, Sardinian

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