{"id":209610,"date":"2024-03-02T10:27:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T10:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/the-arc-of-oblivion-review-offbeat-film-about-preserving-our-world\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:21","slug":"the-arc-of-oblivion-review-offbeat-film-about-preserving-our-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/the-arc-of-oblivion-review-offbeat-film-about-preserving-our-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arc of Oblivion review: Offbeat film about preserving our world"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Film-maker Werner Herzog sits in the ark built\u00a0for Ian Cheney\u2019s film<\/p>\n

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The Arc of Oblivion<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
Ian Cheney<\/strong>
Sandbox Films, in some US cinemas from 23 February<\/p>\n

\u201cHUMANS don\u2019t like forgetting,\u201d says an archivist from the Al Ahmed Mahmoud Library in Chinguetti, Mauritania. Located on an old pilgrimage route to Mecca, Chinguetti is now disappearing under the spreading Sahara desert. Not for the first time: there have been two previous cities on this site, the first built in AD 777, and both vanished under the dunes.<\/p>\n

Ian Cheney, a documentary-maker\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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