prologue

With a budget of $350,000 and a talking-head cast of luminaries, including Willie Nelson, Ann Richards and Robert Redford, whom Malick persuaded to co-produce the project, Dunn set out to make her biggest documentary. Redford, a renowned nature lover, was interested because he spent childhood summers swimming in Barton Springs while visiting his grandfather. Patty Griffin wrote a song for the film pro bono, and Kyle Cooper designed the titles and other graphics.”

This macro/micro dialectic is perhaps best embodied by opening title and end sequences designed by Prologue Films' motion graphics ace Kyle Cooper (Seven, Spider-Man), which recall Charles and Ray Eames’ classic Powers of Ten film, zooming from continental masses to outer space and then back to trees on the ground.”