Northern Drift (2020) [N/A]
Featuring:
Erik Lambert
Written by:
Alexis Destoop
Peter Eckersall
Directed by:
Alexis Destoop
Release Date:
January 24, 2020
Original Title:
Northern Drift
Genres:
Science Fiction
Production Companies:
An Archer A Weaver
Pikene på Broen
Stempel Films
Production Countries:
Belgium | Norway
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 57
Europe's far north, where Russia and Norway meet, is one of the least populated areas in the world. Nevertheless human intervention is visible in almost every breathtaking vista Alexis Destoop recorded. Cold, calm footage of snowfields, bodies of water, industry and research stations pass by, while a narrator from the near future reports on an investigation whose object remains concealed. In the meantime he reflects on the border as a political construct, the intangible, mythical power of nature and the expansion of fossil-fuel extraction to areas that were virtually impenetrable before global warming. Humming, growling machines provide constant background buzz in this subjective exploration of a landscape where past and future meld. Northern Drift is an aesthetic, philosophical investigation of mankind and its environment – a relationship akin to shadow-boxing.
A foreign agent investigating the new opportunities under the changing conditions of the High North gets drawn into an indeterminate zone as he attempts to grasp the multiple meanings of an omnipresent Border. A report from the Future-Past, the fragmented , diaristic narrative turns into a philosophical investigation of humankind's relation to its environment.
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