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Film · 2013
Antarctica: A Year on Ice
Filmed across nearly a decade in Antarctica's extreme Ross Island region, this documentary chronicles the everyday support crew, technicians, and maintenance workers stationed at McMurdo Station and Scott Base. Armed with custom-engineered time-lapse camera systems designed to endure brutal sub-zero temperatures, director Anthony Powell captures the harsh isolation, psychological challenges, and otherworldly beauty of spending four continuous months in total polar darkness.
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The extremes of Antarctica: 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 of isolation way, way down under.
Nicolas Rapold on The New York Times Yes, it features some of the most rapturous footage of calving glaciers and ice floes — alternately freezing and thawing — that you’re likely to have seen... But it is the simple glimpses of ordinary life in an extraordinary place that are the most stirring moments in the film.
Michael O'Sullivan on The Washington Post "Antarctica" is successful because it operates on two complementary levels, the epic visuals whose grandeur can stagger you and the small-scale personal stories of the people who live and work down there.
Kenneth Turan on Los Angeles Times
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