Showing posts with label ice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ice. Show all posts

Thursday, February 21, 2013

'Calving' glacier:

A spectacular sight to behold.

'On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a full mile across a calving face three miles wide. The height of the ice is about 3,000 feet [900m], 300-400 feet [100m] above water and the rest below water.'
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Friday, July 23, 2010

How I Ended This Summer | Kak ya provyol etim letom | Как я провёл этим летом (2010)

“I have been fascinated, ever since, by this ability to come to terms with notions of time and space so drastically different from our common scale of hours and minutes, or blocks and metro stops. This film, essentially, is a story of two personal (and incompatible) time-and-space scales.”*

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Filmed entirely on location, on the easternmost tip of Russia the Valkarkai Polar Station, Chukotka, in the disorienting round-the-clock sunlight of the artic summer.

*Director Alexei Popogrebski found the inspiration for his psychological polar thriller in the dairies of N. V. Pinegin which were written in 1912 when Pinegin accompanied Russian polar explorer Georgio J. Sedov on his tragic attempt to reach the North Pole. Popogrebski read these diaries as a fourteen-year-old. [1]