Timelapse of the Future (2019)

Original title

Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time

Directed by

melodysheep

Genre

popular science

Country

United States

Runtime

29 min

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short documentary shows the universe from the present day all the way to the end of time. It combines original music, fair use footage, and scientific ideas to imagine what happens as the cosmos ages and eventually fades away.

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What happens

Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time is a 2019 short epic documentary film created by American astronomy-themed musician and filmmaker John D. Boswell, made as a follow-up to his other short film Timelapse of the Entire Universe. Running at 29 minutes, it is a flowmotion—a combination of a hyper-lapse, time-lapse, and regular shots—of the universe from 2019 to the end of time, with the lapse rate doubling every five seconds. The film consists of self-made and fair use footage from films, the Internet, and speeches by scientists, using current knowledge and combining different hypotheses. Boswell spent six months on production, beginning in mid-2018, with several months of research prior. It was initially conceived as an art installation without dialogue, but later changed due to the weight of the subject matter. The film's soundtrack combines original music with stock audio; the former was later released in an album titled The Arrow of Time. Timelapse of the Future was released on Boswell's YouTube channel melodysheep and screened on several venues; it also won the 2020 Webby Awards. The film became viral, garnering millions of views and received positive reviews for its audiovisual craft, though some of the plot points were noted as mere speculations. The film inspired a song and music video by Noah Cyrus. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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