What does the birth of the universe actually look like… and how could you possibly film it? When he was making THE TREE OF LIFE, director Terrence Malick bypassed the computer and reached for the phone. The man on the other line was none other than Douglas Trumbull, famous for his groundbreaking work on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.
From Doug Trumbull’s spin dishes and fluid dynamics to Emmanuel Lubezki’s all-natural-light cinematography, this video breaks down the extraordinary visuals at the heart of THE TREE OF LIFE and its sister film, VOYAGE OF TIME and Voyage of Time — and the painstaking process of capturing the infinite on film.
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