The Antarctic Winter Film Festival
March 27, 2020 12:02 PM   Subscribe

For more than a decade, antarctic winterovers across the continent have held an international film festival. These include timed competitions with themes and also a free form category. Entries are often silly, but rarely dull and occasionally timely. Sadly, the vast majority are not online yet.

[Disclosure: I vaguely know people involved in a couple of these. I wasn't involved in any of the ones that are linked.]
posted by eotvos (2 comments total) 7 users marked this as a favorite
 
Aw, Ivan the Terra Bus. I want a ride and to honk the horn.
posted by bartleby at 1:48 PM on March 27, 2020


Small correction: The AIFF happens over the summer (winter in the northern hemisphere). I spent a season down there. The films are mostly what an auteur would call “outsider art,” more a collage of goofy crew humor and earnest artistic experimentation than a polished attempt to create a narrative film. There’s a lot of “you had to be there” but the films I have from my season on the ice still bring a smile to my face.
posted by Leeway at 4:41 PM on March 27, 2020 [1 favorite]


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