The Measure of All Things
7.2 /10 1 Votes
Director Sam Green Genre Documentary Country United States | 7/10 IMDb Music director Mark Dancigers Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date January 20, 2014 (2014-01-20) (Sundance) Initial release May 15, 2014 (San Francisco) Cinematography Peter Sillen, Andrew Black Similar movies Related Sam Green movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Measure of All Things is a 2014 documentary film co-directed by Sam Green and Ymusic. The film had its premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2014.
Contents
Filmmaker Sam Green examines societys obsession with the Guinness Book of World Records.
Documentarian Sam Green interprets our collective fascination with the Guinness Book of World Records as a profound need to try and make some sense of who we are by calibrating human experience and marveling at its outer contours. Green himself travels to various reaches of the Earth to collect original footage of record-holding people, places, and things-the tallest man, the woman with the longest name, the oldest living thing on the planet. He weaves into these original portraits a rich assembly of archival footage, his own live narration, and an evocative live soundtrack from the chamber group yMusic to create an indelible rumination on fate, human endeavor, and the nature of our existence on Earth.
Synopsis
The film explores the fascination of people of all over the world with the Guinness Book of World Records.
Reception
The Measure of All Things received positive reviews from critics. Dennis Lim in his review for The New York Times said that "(it is) a singular experience, and a collective one, with the potential for human connection and human error." Susan Gerhard of Fandor, praised the film by saying that "Sam Green has long taken joy at unpacking utopian promises of the past, many deluded, others inspired, and offering them up for re-evaluation and appreciation."
References
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