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The Arc of Oblivion

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  • 1hr 45m
  • 89

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Ian Cheney

Producer:

Meredith DeSalazar, Manette Pottle, Rebecca Taylor

Runtime:

1hr 45m

Synopsis

The Arc of Oblivion illuminates the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory through a filmmaker's quixotic quest to build an ark in Maine.

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100
Feb 19, 2024

This is a thoroughly stimulating movie.

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Metacritic review by Matt Zoller Seitz
Matt Zoller Seitz
RogerEbert.com
90
Feb 15, 2024

The Arc of Oblivion is a documentary, which means it captures something about life right now, archiving it for the future. But Cheney is also exploring the meaning of archiving itself.

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Metacritic review by Alissa Wilkinson
Alissa Wilkinson
The New York Times
75
Feb 15, 2024

While any passage itself could make a compelling short, it’s largely held together by the curiosity of its maker and the tangents of interest to him as a family man of a certain age when friends, family, and those close to us start slowly fading away at a quicker pace.

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Metacritic review by John Fink
John Fink
The Film Stage
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