Trailer
Year
2011
Length
52/90 min
Director
Magnús Viðar Sigurðsson
Last Days of the Arctic
He is an adventurer. He loves the extreme, where the cold creeps in and people are struggling with nature in its most extreme form. RAX is an Icelandic photographer introducing us to the LAST DAYS OF THE ARCTIC.
He is an excellent pilot, he rides horses, drives a 4×4 truck. He blends in with forgotten people like just another force of nature. He has found his diamond mine, capturing the faces of the North. He is fascinated by stories of half-forgotten people such as the Inuit who have adapted to unspeakably harsh conditions. RAX is now documenting them as they cope with extreme changes to those conditions as the result of climate change. This film is a celebration of the photographer and his subjects. Last Days of the Arctic is an elegy for a disappearing landscape and the people who inhabit it.
In 2008 RAX’s photos were selected by the famous french photographer Gérard Rancinan on an exhibition where Baum and Mercier were honoring the masters of contemporary photography. RAX’s photos were on display side by side with Sebastiao Salgado, James Nachway, Nobuyoshi Araki and Mary Ellen Mark in Palais de Tokyo in Paris. RAX is the recipient of the “Oskar Barnack Award” (2001) as a photographer who’s “powers of observation most vividly express man’s relationship to his environment”.
We are going to join RAX on his journey as he documents the fast vanishing lifestyles of the North. We are going to visit his friends, farmers in Iceland and the free spirit hunters of Greenland. RAX has tirelessly followed the lives of some of these people for the past twenty years.
Directed by
Magnús Viðar Sigurðsson
Written and produced by
Margrét Jónasdóttir
Cinematography
Arnar Þór Þórisson
Music Composer
Jakob Halldórsson
Sound
Eiríkur Hilmisson
Ingólfur Sverrir Guðjónsson
Pétur Einarsson
Daníel Friðriksson
Sounddesign
Nick CathCart-Jones
Producer
Magnus Vidar Sigurðsson
Kjartan Thor Thordarson
Margrét Jónasdóttir
Christian Beetz
Line Producer
Kathrin Isberner
Wolfgang Kramer (NDR)
Editorial
Claudia Cellarius
Sales & distribution
- Press kit
- Press photos
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„Just in diesem Moment überraschen uns die aus dem Theaterbereich stammenden jungen Regisseure Hans Block und Moritz Riesewieck mit einem erstaunlichen Dokumentarfilm, der seit Monaten Publikum und Kritik auf den wichtigsten Festivals der Welt elektrisiert. Völlig zu Recht: Es ist, als würden einem die Scheuklappen weggerissen, als sähe man das, was sich seit Jahren direkt vor unseren Augen abspielt, zum ersten Mal unverschleiert... eine fesselnde ,Doku noir' mit höchstem Anspruch...Dieser Film müsste an allen Schulen gezeigt werden.“
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
17.05.2018
