Arctic Dream

It took me some time, but now it is finished; my animation for Celluloid Remix. I used old material of an ice-breaker. Furthermore I used a printer, a pair of scissors, a scanner and a lot of patience. The film was made for Celluloid Remix and contains especially selected material of the Filmmuseum. 

The ice-breaker made me think of the first true ice-breaker, Yermak, built for the Imperial Russian Navy in 1898. Yermak set up the first radio communication link in Russia, between Kotka and Gogland. The ice-breaker gained hero status in 1899 when she freed an icebound Russian battleship and, while on the same mission, rescued fifty stranded Finnish fishermen.Yermak became the longest serving ice-breaker ever.

I started imagining what the future would have looked liked if this small Dutch ice-breaker would have been involved in rescue-operations and important expeditions. That must have been a dream come true.

In my animation the ice-breaker follows his dream and goes on an expedition to Antarctica.

2009

.mov, 2:14 min.

sound by Arvid van der Rijt

MALAKTA logo

Last week we all joined forces to make an animated logo for Malakta.

The animation was made with the pixelation animation technique.

Who/what were involved?

One still camera

One very high ladder

One laptop

A lot of stuff

10 very active individuals