This is not the cosmic-celestial time-trip sequence from Terrence Malick‘s The Tree of Life. (Malick would of course never dream of sampling Kubrick.) But play it directly after watching Fox Searchlight’s recent Tree of Life trailer, and you’d be forgiven for suspecting as much. It’s actually a school-assignment montage, called Origins, by Dylan Wells. The music is his own. Damn good if I do say so.
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