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VFX supe Dan Glass on The Tree of Life

Terence Malick’s The Tree of Life includes a 12-minute long montage sequence contemplating the history of the universe. The sequence and other effects in the film, which won the Palme d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, were more than five years in the making and the result of close collaboration between Malick and VFX supe Dan Glass. In this fxinsider Q&A, fxguide caught up with Glass in London recently to dissect the different realms of the montage piece.