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