Endless Ascent
Synopsis
- A group of seasoned travelers cross the ocean with the goal of completing the impossible ascent of the mysterious Mountain Without a Summit. Endless Ascent is an expanded cinema piece for six 16mm projectors, combining the electronic music of Merlin Campbell with 16mm projections by Félix Caraballo. The project is based on the reuse of the following institutional archive films: Way Up and Back (1927) by Associated Screen News, The Moving Dunes (1930) by Hans Springer, The Marsh Owl (1953), produced by Nederlandse Onderwijs-Film, and The Erosion of a Coast (1940), produced by G.B. Instructional Films–Edita Films.
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