The new film by well-known documentarian and visual artist Peter Mettler illustrates the unpredictable nature of time with beautiful images of the <The End of Time>. Mettler describes the human penchant for curiosity, starting with the American pilot that took to the skies in his hot-air balloon in August 1960 to a club DJ in crumbling, contemporary Detroit. At the same time, the director also reflects on the position of human civilization within nature. The earth without civilization is described in amazing mise-en-scene at the beginning and in the middle of the film using images based in physics as well as those with plants, animals, objects and nature, then contextualizes them with the final influence of human civilization. By doing so, it demands the audience to remember the past before such civilization, thus implying how fluid time is. A case in point is the so-called moment when time stops, as explained by the techno DJ in Detroit. A philosophical journey searching for the meaning of time every bit as mysterious and elusive as the subject itself. (RHEE, Soue-won)