Werner Herzog's Encounters At the End of the World (2007) is shot with high def grandness like a nature documentary. But it's also a series of character studies of some memorable eccentrics and geniuses who are make up a community of Antarctica residents. The interview framing of cell biologist Samuel S. Bowser (top) includes some bright red gloves. Middle, a class of South Pole newbies (wearing buckets to block sound and sight) unintentionally show the "cascading error phenomenon" that can happen during a sense-erasing blizzard. Volcano expert Clive Oppenheimer (bottom) chooses to wear old-timey tweeds against the cold.
