In this visually stunning exploration, the acclaimed director of Grizzly Man and Rescue Dawn travels to the Antarctic headquarters of the National science Foundation and home to eleven hundred people during the austral summer. His examination of human nature and Mother Nature juxtaposes breathtaking locations with the profound and surreal experiences of the marine biologists, physicists, plumbers, and truck drivers who choose to form a society as far away as one can get. For a trailer of Encounters, click here.