On top of a deserted mountain in Northern Quebec, multimedia artist Michael Snow set up a special camera apparatus with multiple axes that could circle in all directions, and whose alignment and speed were all determined by Snow's pre-programmed settings. He proceeded to record images of the environment that utterly transform the landscape and our perception of it. As the horizon line, and our orientation, is literally turned upside down and every which way, the film's three-hour length takes on epic implications. Described as a heroic reflection on the solar system, La Région Centrale shows us no trace of human life, instead representing an interaction between nature and machine that illustrates the cosmic relationships of space and time.