''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
San Antonio de los Baños is a municipality and town in the Artemisa Province of Cuba. It is located 26 km from the city of Havana, and the Ariguanabo River runs through it. It was founded in 1802.
History
There are 39 schools in the town, ...
, Cuba. Post-production was completed in
New York City
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and Macedonia.
Cinematography by Alain López Martínez, edited by Kristina Pozenel, music and
sound design
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by Igor Vasilev Novogradska,
visual effects
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a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production.
The integration of live-action footage and other live-action foota ...
by Misho Ristov Rex, and
color grading
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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. 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)
Aspen Shortfest
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Species
These species are called aspens:
*''Populus adenopoda'' – Chinese aspen (China, ...
Palm Springs International Shortfest
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* Festival International du film Nancy-Lorraine
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Oaxaca Film Festival
Oaxaca FilmFest was an eight-day long international film festival that was permanently cancelled in 2022 without taking place, once it could no longer hide the fact that it devolved into a calculated scam to prey on unknowing filmmakers. At its st ...
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Buffalo International Film Festival
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History
The film festival became a 501c3 not-for-profit charity in January 2 ...
São Paulo International Film Festival
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St. Louis International Film Festival
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* Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival - Special Mention
* Bogota International Short Film Festival
* Alternative Film/Video Festival
* Berlin Experimental Film Festival
* Minimalen Short Film Festival
Additional Screenings
* Manchevski's "Dreaming a Wu Yan Poem" art exhibition - Shanghai,China
* 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