International Competition
Into the Ice ◊ jp◊
- Onsite
- 7.16 (Sun) 13:50 Convention Hall
- 7.19 (Wed) 17:00 Audio Visual Hall
- Online
- 7.22 (Sat) 10:00 - 7.26 (Wed) 23:00
Lars Ostenfeld travels with three scientists on their expeditions to the inland ice of Greenland. They collect data to decipher global warming in deadly circumstances, with blizzards and collapsing ice.
©Lars Ostenfeld
Director: Lars OSTENFELD
2022 / Denmark, Germany / 86min.
Into the Ice is undoubtedly a documentary that sounds the alarm about global warming, but it is also an excellent human documentary about three true heroes: two glaciologists, Alun Hubbard and Jason Box, and a paleoclimatology professor, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen. There is a spine-chilling scene, scarier than some horror films, in which director Ostenfeld, accompanying Hubbard on his research, trips near the edge of a crevasse, but the scientists keep digging in the snow as if they playing with the ice, exploring the crevasse. The film’s highlight is the scientists and their human behavior. A Japanese specialist in the snow-atmosphere interaction in the cryosphere, Masashi Niwano, accompanies Box in his research, and the scene in which he cooks instant ramen in his tent and says, “For Japanese people, it is very important to make good ramen” is quite amusing.
© Caspar Haarløv
Director: Lars OSTENFELD
Ostenfeld has many years of experience in science and nature documentary. Most recently he directed and filmed episodes of DR’s major nature series “Wild”, “Wonderful Denmark” and the documentary “Tracking the Wolf”. He is behind several award-winning programs for DR and TV2, including “Ph.D. Cup”, created in cooperation with the Lundbeck Foundation and Information, The Pain Experiment and Nature Live. Together with DTU Space and astrophysicist Anja C. Andersen of the Niels Bohr Institute, he was also behind DR’s “Live from Space”, in which 360-degree live footage was sent from space for the first time using a balloon with live-streaming cameras. He is also the creator of “The Polar Bear Live”, which was streamed directly to 200 TV screens during the climate summit COP22 and “Live from the Depths”, broadcast live from a submarine 40 metres underwater and 100 kilometres offshore at the bottom of the North Sea.
Message
It has been my ambition to create a very sensory film, so viewers who watch it will hopefully feel more closely connected to the ice —and thereby ultimately be willing to fight for it.
