Titre: Voyage of TimeRéalisation: Terrence Malick
Narrateurs: Brad Pitt et Jessica Chastain
Genre: Documentaire
Origine: USA
Sortie: Inconnue
Synopsis: Le réalisateur de "The Tree of Life" prépare depuis des décennies un film-documentaire expérimental dont une grosse partie fut autrefois mêlée à l'histoire de son dernier film. Le projet avait initialement pour titre "Q" ou "Qasida" (poème Arabe, Perse pré-islamique) et contenait tout un contexte hallucinant fusionnant Création, Science et Mythologie. Depuis, le film ne contiendra apparemment que le background scientifique. En pré-production pour le moment, sans date de sortie et bénéficiant d'un secret absolu, Voyage of Time pourrait devenir un des plus grands documentaires du Cinéma. Mix de BBC, Malick et Ron Frickle ?
Aux SFX : Douglas Trumbull et ses créations " organiques " à base de liquides mélangés : eau, lait, peinture, crème etc...
Encore une fois, les musiques devraient être une compilation de cantiques, classique et cie.
Screenshots issus de The Tree of Life dont Voyage of Time devrait normalement contenir les 19 min aperçues dans le film.
According to a treatment for the documentary, “Voyage of Time” will cover the first signs of life, bacteria, cellular pioneers, first love, consciousness, the ascent of humanity, life and death and the end of the universe. The business plan, heavily illustrated with images of jellyfish, crocodile embryo, nebular clouds, a slot canyon in Utah and Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, includes testimonial letters from Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, who promises that “Voyage of Time” will “be a memorable combination of art and science that will inspire as well as educate.”
This is basically Qasida, with the exception of the fact that Qasida opens with a creature waking from his sleep and closing with his hibernation. The whole of Qasida is the concept of sleep as a bedrock of consciousness and from the cosmogony of unconsciousness arises the formation of the universe, the Big Bang, the birth of the sun, the formation of Earth, the cyclical appearance of a comet, and the formation of life. Qasida then takes the viewer all the way to the Ice Age, where hibernation brings us back to sleep. Voyage differs from Qasida in that the latter would have been seeded with mythological archetypes throughout and would have been closer to a multimedia experience than a film proper.
This is primarily how the script plays out:
Ancestral Moon>
Volcanoes – Infant Earth>
Geothermal Areas – Dawn>
Meteors, Electric Skies, Raging Sea>
Gondawanaland>
Atoms, Crystals>
First Life>
Supernova, Comet, Aurora>
Devonian Forests>
Insects>
Devonian Shore, Lungfish (Age of Amphibians)>
Eggs (emerging from one world into another)>
Age of Dinosaurs>
Great Comet>
Death of Dinosaurs>
Raging Sea, Other Cataclysms>
Tertiary Rain Forest (mammals, primates)>
Quaternary Wildlife>
Australopithecus>
Hibernating creatures (sleep = link to dreaming God, first images, where sleep ties up Qasida: widens out onto psychic night that will be theme of screenplay. Malick references Shakespeare's The Tempest, we are the "stuff of dreams">
Ice Age Sights>
Eclipse>
Melting snow
Ancestral Moon>
Volcanoes – Infant Earth>
Geothermal Areas – Dawn>
Meteors, Electric Skies, Raging Sea>
Gondawanaland>
Atoms, Crystals>
First Life>
Supernova, Comet, Aurora>
Devonian Forests>
Insects>
Devonian Shore, Lungfish (Age of Amphibians)>
Eggs (emerging from one world into another)>
Age of Dinosaurs>
Great Comet>
Death of Dinosaurs>
Raging Sea, Other Cataclysms>
Tertiary Rain Forest (mammals, primates)>
Quaternary Wildlife>
Australopithecus>
Hibernating creatures (sleep = link to dreaming God, first images, where sleep ties up Qasida: widens out onto psychic night that will be theme of screenplay. Malick references Shakespeare's The Tempest, we are the "stuff of dreams">
Ice Age Sights>
Eclipse>
Melting snow
One of the main sources for this information was a book Malick read as a young boy,THE WORLD WE LIVE IN first serialized in Life magazine and then published as a collection of hardcover books :
This documentary film, The Voyage of Time, will reportedly borrow special effects from The Tree of Life, as well as add more, though a release date has not yet been set. Malick’s script notes called for The Tree of Life to feature “Quasars,” “Galaxies,” “Proto-Solar System,” “Ancestral Earth,” “Molten Oceans,” “Volcanoes,” “Infant Earth,” “Night Meteors,” “Electric Skies,” “Raging Sea Atoms,” “Crystals,” “plants,” “Pre-cambrian era,” “Supernova,” “Comet,” “Aurora,” “Cambrian,” “volvox,” “underwater, “Silurian era,” “Age of Dinosaurs” and so much more. While much of this finds its way onto the screen, what does not may well end up in Malick’s The Voyage of Time. Mr. O’Brien himself from The Tree of Life, Brad Pitt, will even narrate.
Then there are Trumbull’s plans for a “big space adventure movie” in 120FPS 3D that promises to go “way beyond anything that Peter Jackson and Jim Cameron have been doing or are thinking of.” Though last year may not qualify as “2011: A Spiritual Odyssey,” thanks to the Academy’s poor judgment, with Trumbull still going strong at 70, we have a lot to look forward to.
In Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, one of many books that served as inspiration for Malick and his Tree of Life, Alyosha says of his heavenly vision, “There seemed to be threads from all those innumerable worlds of God, linking his soul to them, and it was trembling all over ‘in contact with other worlds.’” For the earthbound of us who are not Alyosha, Jack O’Brien, or even astronaut David Bowman – not “in contact with other worlds” — the visual effects magic of Douglas Trumbull must for now suffice. sfsignal.com
Un fragment de l'Opéra cosmique issu de The Tree of life : avant-goût pour les curieux.
Au générique de The Tree of Life, on retrouve ça :
SPACE IMAGES CONCEIVED BY MICHAEL BENSON, AUTHOR OF BEYOND AND FAR OUT
BASED IN PART ON DATA PROCESSED BY DAVID DE MARTIN FROM THE PALOMAR
OBSERVATORY, THE DIGITIZED SKY SURVEY, CALTECH
SATURN SPACE SEQUENCES BASED IN PART ON DATA PROCESSED BY GORDAN UGARKOVIC
FROM THE CASSINI MISSION TO SATURN
CREATED BY AND CHRIS PARKS, IMAGE QUEST 3-D
DINOSAUR MAQUETTES DESIGNED AND CREATED BY KNB EFX GROUP, INC
BASED IN PART ON DATA PROCESSED BY DAVID DE MARTIN FROM THE PALOMAR
OBSERVATORY, THE DIGITIZED SKY SURVEY, CALTECH
SATURN SPACE SEQUENCES BASED IN PART ON DATA PROCESSED BY GORDAN UGARKOVIC
FROM THE CASSINI MISSION TO SATURN
CREATED BY AND CHRIS PARKS, IMAGE QUEST 3-D
DINOSAUR MAQUETTES DESIGNED AND CREATED BY KNB EFX GROUP, INC
Michael Benson works at the intersection of art and science. A photographer, writer, filmmaker, book-maker, and exhibitions producer, in the last decade he has staged a series of increasingly large-scale exhibitions of planetary landscape photography internationally, mostly under the title Beyond. Benson takes raw data from NASA and European Space Agency archives and processes it, creating large-format landscapes. He edits, composites, then frequently mosaics, and then finally optimizes these images, producing seamless digital C prints of landscapes beyond direct human experience. He is also an award-winning filmmaker, with work that straddles the boundary between fiction and documentary practice.
Gros projet donc, que l'on attend avec l'impatiente ferveur des fanatiques. Personnellement, le projet Q se rapprochait tellement d'un de mes projets (que je concrétiserai certainement jamais
) que ce revirement (déjà établit depuis des lustres) m'arrange et me remotive à m'y mettre. En un film et un doc Malick aura (peut-être) combler toutes mes attentes cinéphiles (et artistiques tout court d'ailleurs).
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