a memory of tomorrow
The Ice Museum is a fulldome movie about Antarctica, the oceans that surround it and a point in history when it began to be understood.
Beginning with Mawson’s Huts, it traces their origins during the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), moving across time through their human story to contemporary conservation efforts for their centenary in 2011.
It is also a spatial story: we move across complex data visualisations of the changing climate, the changing world, that trace their origins to these early explorers and scientists.
It is a series of connections that unfold over decades : the end of the Heroic Era; the scientific history; the aesthetics of the Antarctic and contemporary issues of climate change and human intervention in this last great wilderness.
The project has received initial script-development funding from Screen Tasmania and production support from the Mawson’s Huts Foundation – we will be shooting at Cape Denison, Antarctica, this austral summer (December to January, 2009.) An objective is to push genre boundaries – a collision of spectacular visual content in counterpoint with innovation in narrative form.
The Ice Museum will be a 45 minute feature – standard feature length for planetarium/fulldome productions.
It will be shot in stereoscopic/monoscopic 4K and mono 8K (with some 8k stereo research experiments). Monoscopic 4K/3K will be suitable for Australian and other international planetaria.
The Ice Museum is a fulldome movie about Antarctica, the oceans that surround it and a point in history when it began to be understood.
Beginning with Mawson’s Huts, it unfolds a tale from the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), moving across time through their human story to contemporary conservation efforts for their centenary in 2011.
This Ariadne’s thread is also a spatial story: we move across complex data visualisations of the changing climate, the changing world, that trace their origins to the work of these early scientists and explorers.
It is a series of connections that unfold over decades : the end of the Heroic Era; the scientific history and modern understanding; the aesthetics of the Antarctic and contemporary issues of climate change and human intervention in this last great wilderness.
The project has received initial script-development funding from Screen Tasmania and production support from the Mawson’s Huts Foundation. An objective is to push genre boundaries – a collision of spectacular visual content in counterpoint with innovation in narrative form.
The Ice Museum will be a 45 minute feature – standard feature length for planetarium/fulldome productions.
It has been shot in fulldome 4K. Post-production is occurring during 2011, for release in 2012.
