A year on ice to quench my curiosity on the matter, and despite the wondrous offerings, was left feeling only slightly satiated. With anthony powell, genevieve bachman, william brotman, michael christiansen. Get an adfree experience with special benefits, and directly support reddit. A year on ice might seem routine to fans of nature documentaries, but the photographer and director anthony powell produces some dazzling imagery in his droll. Nature photographer anthony powell spent ten years making his documentary antarctica. It covers an area of almost 14 million square kilometres 5. A year on ice is a documentary about workers at research stations who spend the winter months keeping things operational. A year on ice, youll run out of superlatives to describe the experience. Over 10 years in the making by frozen planet photographer anthony powell. Filling the giant screen with stunning timelapse vistas of antarctica, and detailing year round life at mcmurdo and scott base, anthony powells documentary is a potent hymn to the icy continent and the heavens above. Antarctic sea ice crashed this year and scientists dont know why. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a closeknit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. With amazing photography and a series of interviews with people who live in antarctica, the documentary explores an element.
New research explains why antarctic sea ice has grown ars. A year on ice is a visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there. It was made with some assistance from the new zealand film commission and it is exactly what the title implies. A visually stunning chronicle of what it is like to live in antarctica for a full year, including winters isolated from the rest of the world, and enduring months of. Geo guy, i think that upon reading the text and not just looking at the figures, the two sentences while the interior of east antarctica is gaining land ice, overall antarctica is losing land ice at an accelerating rate. Aug 31, 2017 the sudden, unexpected nosedive in antarctic sea ice last year was due to a unique onetwo punch from atmospheric conditions both in the tropical pacific ocean and around the south pole. The highs and lows experienced by these intrepid souls, combined with. It was so cold he had to build a special camera to withstand the frigid temperatures. A year on ice official trailer 1 2014 documentary hd. But, if ice appeared on the antarctic continent that long ago, who on earth could have created charts that depict the continent free of ice.
A year on ice is not a documentary film about the place itself as much as it is about the people who live in antarctica and how they cope with and deal with living out daytoday lives in an isolated and unfamiliar territory that most people never experience. It doesnt discuss exactly what the facilities do, focusing instead on regular workers, administrators, maintenance people, clerks, etc. It is a huge land covered with ice as thick as three miles, seemingly invulnerable, cold and dark for eight months of the year. Yet antarctica is also a fragile place, home to an incredible variety of life along its edges, arguably the most stunning, breathtaking and stillpristine place on earth. A year on ice is the first feature film by new zealand filmmaker anthony b. This documentary is set in antarctica, specifically in the ross island region, which is home to two research bases. A year on ice 20 tt2361700 filling the giant screen with stunning timelapse vistas of antarctica, and detailing yearround life at mcmurdo and scott base, anthony powells documentary is a potent hymn to the icy continent and the heavens above. A year on ice is a visually stunning film that lets you experience what it is like to live in antarctica for a full year, including winters isolated from the rest of the world, while enduring months of darkness in the harshest place on earth.
A year on ice might seem routine to fans of nature documentaries, but the photographer and director anthony powell produces some dazzling imagery in his droll study. Footage for this film has been meticulously gathered for the last 10 years, including 9 winterovers, isolated from the rest of the world. Antarctica is colder than the arctic, but its still losing ice noaa. United states mcmurdo station and new zealands scott base. The antarctic ice sheet is one of the two polar ice caps of the earth. Then youll start using them all again, in combination, and youll still be unable to adequately describe what youve seen. Guided by nature photographer anthony powell, we experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most severe. As the nsidc release explains, antarcticas sea ice growth spurt may be down to stronger winds and slightly fresher sea surface water around the margins of the continents melting ice shelves. Were seeing how they progress through an entire year how they are affected by the 24 hours of summer sunlight, the unending darkness of a harsh winter, and the isolation. The temperature measured on june 14 this year is the lowest of the entire period of observation. Research based on observations from nasas twin nasagerman aerospace. A year on ice feature film this is a demo clip i did back in 2005 to demonstrate the potential for timelapse imagery in antarctica.
In the antarctic summer, between january and march, when there is plenty of daylighttwentyfour hours a day. This year, however, the sea ice at our planets south pole is crashing, and scientists dont know why. This multi award winning feature film is a visually stunning chronicle of what it is like to live in antarctica for a full year, including the never before seen deep antarctic winter, completely isolated from the rest of the world, while enduring months of unending darkness, in the coldest place on earth. A visually stunning chronicle of what it is like to. Guided by nature photographer anthony powell, we experience firsthand. A year on ice is a visually stunning journey to the end of. A year on ice, were not just seeing a snippet of time in their lives on a given day. From september to november of 2016, the ring of ice surrounding antarctica melted at a rate of up to 30,000 square miles. A year on ice official trailer 1 2014 documentary hd antarctica. The mass of the antarctic ice sheet has changed over the last several years.
It contains the geographic south pole and is situated in the antarctic region of the southern hemisphere, almos. A year on ice is not your normal nature documentary. A visually stunning chronicle of what it is like to live in antarctica for a full year, including. Jul 09, 2016 new research explains why antarctic sea ice has grown. A visually stunning chronicle of what it is like to live in antarctica for a full year, including winters isolated from the rest of the world, and enduring months of darkness in the coldest place on earth. A year on ice 20 tt2361700 filling the giant screen with stunning timelapse vistas of antarctica, and detailing year round life at mcmurdo and scott base, anthony powells documentary is a potent hymn to the icy continent and the heavens above. To my eye, the video is a good honest 1080p resolution. Jun 15, 2016 temperatures in that part of antarctica are extreme both in winter and summer. According to experts, ice in antarctica suddenly appeared some 35 million years ago. Just about every month, it seems, we get a report on the dismal state of arctic sea ice. One hundred million years before that, the continent remained free of ice. Shot in antarctica over the course of 10 years, it includes, as one might hope, some breathtaking timelapse photography of. High levels of carbon dioxide and mild climate just 500 miles.
Antarctic winter sea ice extent sets new record in 2014. May 19, 2014 antarctica is now losing about 160 billion tonnes of ice a year to the ocean twice as much as when the continent was last surveyed. In 2015, sea ice experts concluded that the small gains in antarctic sea ice in some seasons. Unlike the arctic, where a large area of sea ice lasts year round see the arctic sea ice indicator, the sea ice around antarctica is thinner and nearly all of it melts in a typical summer. Why antarctic sea ice is growing the weather channel. Remains of 90millionyearold rainforest discovered in antarctica.
In september, the sun rises, and then doesnt set again until march. Last winters seaice offers sometimes spectacular sailing among the floeswith some ice seals, like weddell, crabeater and leopard seals, sometimes still along with their pup aged just a few weeks old seasons of antarctica. Much of this years sea ice growth occurred late in the winter season, and weather records indicate that strong southerly winds blew over the weddell. Ice shelf disintegration and glacier acceleration in antarctica could raise. Right now the polar researchers work in permanent darkness, as in winter antarctica falls onto polar night. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 3 days to finish once started. A year on ice is a visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there yearround. Guided by nature photographer anthony powell, we experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most severe environment on earth along with the hardy and devoted people who call it home year round.
Nov 28, 2014 every year, several thousand people prove their intestinal fortitude by taking jobs at the research stations in antarctica. Anthony powell gives us a glimpse into what its like living at a station in antarctica, but strangely, its more tell than show. This happens because no landmass is present to stop antarctic sea ice from breaking up and drifting northward into warmer waters, where it eventually melts. Sep 23, 20 the ice that covers the arctic ocean has been on an overall downward trend in summer for more than three decades now, but the growth of sea ice in winter at the opposite end of the world in the. It covers about 98% of the antarctic continent and is the largest single mass of ice on earth. A year on ice antzworks 2015 pg bluray version this is a documentary from a filmmaker previously unknown to me.
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