Into Eternity (film)
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| Directed by | Michael Madsen |
| Written by | Michael Madsen |
| Produced by | Lise Lense-Møller |
| Starring | Carl Reinhold Bråkenhjelm, Mikael Jensen, Berit Lundqvist |
| Cinematography | Heikki Färm |
| Edited by | Daniel Dencik, Stefan Sundlöf |
| Distributed by | Films Transit International |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
| Country | Denmark |
| Language | English |
Into Eternity is a 2010 Danish documentary film directed by Michael Madsen,[1] released in 2010.[2] It follows the construction of the Onkalo waste repository at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant on the island of Olkiluoto, Finland. Director Michael Madsen questions Onkalo's intended eternal existence, addressing an audience in the remote future.
Into Eternity raises the question of the authorities' responsibility of ensuring compliance with relatively new safety criteria legislation and the principles at the core of
When shown on the British
Background
Into Eternity is a documentary about a
Application for the implementation of
Synopsis
This film explores the question of preparing the site so that it is not disturbed for 100,000 years, even though no
Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level
man-made disasters, and societal changes. In Finland, the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of tunnels – that must last the entire period the waste remains hazardous: 100,000 years.Once the repository waste has been deposited and is full, the facility is to be sealed off and never opened again. Or so we hope, but can we ensure that? And how is it possible to
Giza pyramidsof our time, mystical burial grounds, hidden treasures? Which languages and signs will they understand? And if they understand, will they respect our instructions?Experts above ground strive to find solutions to this crucially important radioactive waste issue to secure mankind and all species on planet Earth now and in the near and very distant future.
Reception
The film received overall positive reviews from Swedish film critics, with an average score of 3.6 of 5 according to Kritiker.se.[5] Praise was given for the suggestive presentation of the daunting task of communicating the dangers of nuclear waste far into the future, as well as the great dangers of handling the by-products of nuclear energy.[6] At the same time, the same presentation was criticized by Dagens Nyheter for "numbing" the viewer by being exaggerated or even over-simplified.[7] Cornell University anthropologist Vincent Ialenti has described differences between Madsen's film's "aesthetics of desolation and bleakness, of forbidding machinery and industrial processes" and his own fieldwork experiences in Olkiluoto repository safety case experts' offices.[8] The film received the Green Screen Documentary Award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). [5]
See also
References
- ^ This is not the same person as the American actor Michael Madsen.
- ^ Michael Madsen at IMDb [1].
- ^ Variety, "Finland Nuclear Energy Act (1987)". Retrieved July 3, 2009.
- ^ "Nuclear Eternity". More4. Channel 4. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- ^ Kritiker.se, Into Eternity; based on 7 reviews.
- ^ Gentele, Jeanette, "Into Eternity" [2]. Svenska Dagbladet, 2 September 2010.
- ^ Gezelius, Kerstin, "Into Eternity"[3]. Dagens Nyheter, 3 September 2010.
- ^ Ialenti, Vincent. 2020. Deep Time Reckoning. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. [4]
External links
Films portal
Nuclear technology portal
- "Deep Time Reckoning." (Vincent Ialenti) Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (2020).
- Page at the Dogwoof film distributor website
- Nuclear Energy Act, 1987
- BBC News - Finland buries its nuclear past, 27/04/2006
- Into Eternity at IMDb
- [6] Dr. Helen Caldicott interview director of the film]
- [7] Review in Washington City Paper
- [8] Review in The New York Times
- "Sebastian Musch: The Atomic Priesthood and Nuclear Waste Management - Religion, Sci-fi Literature and the End of our Civilization
