¡Vivan las Antipodas!

The film starts with the question of what the shortest road is between Entre Rios in Argentina and Shanghai in China. The answer is a straight line through the centre of the earth, because these two places lie exactly opposite each other. The documentary visits four such pairs of opposite points and puts the two places in the same frame side by side, often with one of them turned upside down. What comes out is not a lesson in geography but a way of seeing how the two most distant places on earth exist at the same moment. The account uses few words and leaves the work to the image. Viktor Kossakovsky’s hundred and four minute documentary was completed in 2011.