Film and Video

Trailer for the upcoming feature film “Antarctica: A Year on Ice.” Most film crews that visit Antarctica are only there for a few short months over the summer season. Footage for this film was meticulously gathered over the past 10 years, including 9 winter-overs, and shows what it is like to experience a year at the bottom of the planet through the eyes of the everyday workers who are isolated from the rest of the world while they keep the stations running in the harshest continent.

Svalbard is an archipelago high within the Arctic Circle. In 1920, a treaty known as the Svalbard Act was signed by several nations recognising Norwegian sovereignty over the islands, and declaring the whole region a demilitarized zone. This is a short film about how Svalbard, over the course of recent history, became increasingly linked to developments in climate science. Much of the footage was shot whilst on residency above the Arctic Circle in 2010.

Featuring groundbreaking footage from seven winters in the Arctic, People of a Feather takes you through time into the world of Inuit on the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay. Connecting past present and future is a unique cultural relationship with the eider duck.

For more information, please visit the film website and its associated Arctic Eider Society page.

The film chronicles a life-altering journey from one end of the Earth to the other, by two Inuit teens (Terry Noah and Jason Qaapiq) from Grise Fiord, Nunavut, Canada’s northernmost Arctic community, to the bottom of the world, Antarctica. The journey was the dream of the late Dr. Fritz Koerner (1932-2008), the irreverent and legendary glaciologist whom the people of Grise Fiord named “Imiqutailaq” (Arctic Tern), after the little seabird that flies from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back each year. The documentary touches on Fritz’s 50 years traveling pole to pole, studying the ice, and how he wanted these Inuit youth to better understand the impacts of climate change, and inspire everyone to do something about protecting the poles and the planet.

The film chronicles a life-altering journey from one end of the Earth to the other, by two Inuit teens (Terry Noah and Jason Qaapiq) from Grise Fiord, Nunavut, Canada’s northernmost Arctic community, to the bottom of the world, Antarctica. The journey was the dream of the late Dr. Fritz Koerner (1932-2008), the irreverent and legendary glaciologist whom the people of Grise Fiord named “Imiqutailaq” (Arctic Tern), after the little seabird that flies from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back each year. The documentary touches on Fritz’s 50 years traveling pole to pole, studying the ice, and how he wanted these Inuit youth to better understand the impacts of climate change, and inspire everyone to do something about protecting the poles and the planet.

A documentary film about life at the Geographic South Pole. Follow six crew members on their journey from light to dark, and crowded to isolated, as they spend a full year at the bottom of the Earth. Includes rare footage of auroras at the Pole, and the annual sunset and sunrise. What happens at the bottom of the world when the lights go out and don’t come back on for six months?

Archived live webcast: “Not the Time to COP Out” – Sheila Watt-Cloutier‘s lecture on climate change to UN COP‐17. This event was presented by Mount Allison University’s Arctic Environmental Change class, and is part of IsumaTV’s project: Digital Indigenous Democracy (DID) www.isuma.tv/did. For more information, see: www.isuma.tv/siila

Link to video: http://www.isuma.tv/lo/en/siila/sheila-watt-cloutier-live-webcast-nov-29

The Will Steger Foundation seeks to inspire and be a catalyst for international environmental leadership to stop global warming through exploration, education and action.

The featured movie is on Ellesmere Island, rife with wildlife; from white wolves, to muskox, to rabbits the size of Volkswagons. Fearless of humans, the animals stroll thru camp each evening.

View more movies at The Will Steger Foundation.

A short preview version of the fulldome (planetarium) “Frozen in Time” (2008) currently on show at Horizon – The Planetarium at Scitech (Perth, Western Australia). What you see here is a 400×400 pixel web version, stereo audio – ~80MB in h.264.

The fulldome version is about 200GB. The image is circular because it is in equi-azimuthal fish-eye projection – meaning that it is designed to be projected onto a large hemispherical dome surface surrounding the viewer.
View more videos by Peter Morse.

Trailer for a feature length film. Expected release: spring 2011. Film by Jan van den Berg and Pipaluk Knudsen-Ostermann. An Inuit search for solutions to the chemical poisoning of the world. View larger version at the Silent Snow trailer web site. More information at DRSFILM.TV

This classic short film shows how to make an igloo using only snow and a knife. Two Inuit men in Canada’s Far North choose the site, cut and place snow blocks and create an entrance–a shelter completed in one-and-a-half hours. The commentary explains that the interior warmth and the wind outside cement the snow blocks firmly together. As the short winter day darkens, the two builders move their caribou sleeping robes and extra skins indoors, confident of spending a snug night in the midst of the Arctic cold!

On 14 December 1911, Norwegian Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole. Watch his dramatic expedition in Viking’s new ‘Explorers’ series, which brings you some amazing stories from history.