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THE ELEVENTH HOUR

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Watch THE ELEVENTH HOUR on YouTube

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Video editing: 

Montag

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Music:

PFM - The Eleventh Hour

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Movie:

Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) - Directed by Yuri Norstein​

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Eleventh hour means something like "at the 48th minute of the second half," basically at the last hour, the last minute, the final moment.  

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The expression comes from the book of Matthew in the Bible, specifically the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, where a landowner hires workers at different times of the day, including some at the "eleventh hour" (basically the end of the workday).

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In the end, everyone gets paid the same, which makes the last ones happy and the first ones pretty pissed off — and a resolution that probably created the first entrepreneurial atheists in history, right there in the New Testament.  

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In my favorite short film, Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) by Russian director Yuri Norstein, the little hedgehog sets out to visit his friend, the bear cub, for a special evening—drinking tea with raspberry jam and counting the stars together.  

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Everything’s fine until he decides to take a shortcut.
That’s when the real adventure begins.

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The path turns into a mysterious journey as the fog rolls in, revealing strange figures and even stranger sensations, the hedgehog gets lost in the presence of a silent white horse, and as the darkness deepens, other ambiguous beings appear and disappear; he wavers between fear and fascination until he’s saved by a dog and later by a giant fish, which finally brings him back to his original path.  

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When he arrives at his destination, even sitting next to his friend, his mind remains elsewhere.

The hedgehog feels forever changed — a metaphor for courage, determination, curiosity, and transformation.  

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The fog represents his own mind, where each vision reflects his personal restlessness and fascination with the unknown and, instead of answers, he returns with more questions and an even stronger desire to keep exploring whatever lies beyond his understanding.  

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And maybe, just maybe, with a slight LSD effect.  

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I decided to mess with old passions and memories, spending a few hours blending this short film with the stunning The Eleventh Hour by PFM — a song capable of evoking every possible mental landscape, and simply called it The Eleventh Hour.

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There is no copyright infringement intended, the material used in this is purely for entertainment purposes, and it will be removed by request.

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