Snow, Sex Chairs and the Hadron Collider: The Films of Peter Mettler
Canadian filmmaker Peter Mettler’s newest film, The End of Time, begins with a fall from the heavens. The footage is from Project Excelsior, in which Captain Joseph Kittinger of the United States Air Force parachuted out of a balloon all the way up in the stratosphere, above New Mexico. It’s breathtaking, daring, and perhaps unfathomable for those of us…
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