They are the newest territories to be discovered. Their
enigmas and inhospitable spaces are the most propitious for courageous
filmmakers who seek light in the darkness of its depths. Guidedoc brings to you
the Best Documentary Films of Antarctica about these wild worlds of ice.
Cold Love
This film is one of the Latest
Documentary Films to be filmed on the North Pole and, however, its footage
includes more than twenty-five years of amateur video recordings of countless
expeditions made by explorer Lonnie Dupre to territories like Greenland,
Minnesota and Alaska. Dupre’s aim with this film is to demonstrate that a
harmonic relationship between man and nature is possible through the passion
for adventure. Making his way through the snow by dogs, with his skis on, or
using a kayak, Dupre's journey through the Arctic takes on the value of
reminding us that this fragile ecosystem functions as a thermostat of the
planet's temperature.
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Picture of Light
Filmed by one of the great geniuses
of documentary filmmaking, Swiss filmmaker Peter Mettler constructs a
philosophical reflection on cinema as a means of representing reality through
the filming of an exploration in northern Canada to film the aurora borealis.
Being one of the main narrative features of his filmography, Mettler’s own
account introduces us to the evolution of his thoughts while contrasting images
alternate on the screen: the scenes of the group of explorers doing their daily
tasks and those of the incredible and pictorial images of the famous northern
lights. Picture of Light is a window to the magical side of the North Pole and
stands as a poetic essay in which electromagnetism, superstition and light are
reinterpreted as phenomena of contemporaneity.
Antarctica, A Year On ice
It’s the turn of the immense
continent of the South Pole. In this best adventure documentary film, its director and amateur photographer Anthony Powell
uses his specially adapted cameras to shoot time lapses that make the life of
the few people who populate Antarctica a definitely impressive experience for
the viewer. Mechanics, firefighters, scientists and other characters tell us
what it feels like to inhabit this mysterious isolated continent in the
southernmost part of the planet. As in romanticist painting, the human figure
becomes small before the immensity of a cold nature, in this case crowned by
the Mount Erebus Volcano. In this unforgettable film, we discover how this
landscape, as beautiful as it is wild, has transformed the lives of these
privileged and courageous characters.
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