Non-fiction: Jerri Nielsen with Maryanne Vollers: Ice Bound (Ebury Press, 2001) I’ve already talked about Ice Bound the movie here, based on this very book. The book is Dr Jerri Nielsen’s own account of her time as the winter-over doctor at the U.S. South Pole station. She was stricken with Continue Reading
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Antarctic Research Blog #75 – 90 South
Documentary: Herbert G. Ponting: 90 South (U.K. 1933) This is the sound version of Herbert Ponting’s earlier documentary of the final Scott expedition, The Great White South. Apparently, the images are quite the same, but there’s a voiceover narration by Ponting himself. The pictures are interesting, but I suspect only Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #74: the Last Place on Earth
TV series: Ferdinand Fairfax: The Last Place on Earth (U.K. 1985) Based on Roland Huntford’s seminal book, this is a British TV series of seven episodes about the race for the South Pole. It’s definitely the best movie or tv series of any kind I’ve seen about the Heroic Period Continue Reading
Pyhää maata makes the final 10
Our short film Pyhää maata made the final top 10 in the Uneton 48 competition. Now were waiting to see who wins…
Wedding Photo
We got the photos of our summer wedding today. Its been lovely looking through them. I see so many moments captured that I didn’t see at the wedding, because I was in the spotlight. All the pictures are by Katri Lassila, who did a wonderful job.
Screenings of Pyhää maata
There’ll be a screening of some of the short films made for the Uneton 48 competition, our movie Pyhää maata among them. The screening is in Helsinki, at the movie theatre Andorra, on Thursday 2nd of October, 17:00-19:00. Tickets for the screening of eleven shorts are 7 €.
Antarctic Research Blog #73: Encounters at the End of the World
Documentary: Werner Herzog: Encounters at the End of the World (U.S.A. 2007) A kind of a sequel to Herzog’s scifi speculation documentary The Wild Blue Yonder, this is a movie about the people who go to work in Antarctica. Its a very good movie, poetic and beautiful even when it Continue Reading
Roolipelaaja 17 is now at the printers
Issue #17 of Roolipelaaja (The Roleplayer), the roleplaying magazine I edit, is now at the printers.
10 minuuttia aikaa jäi yli…
(Kuva: Matti Näränen. Lyhytelokuvan Pyhää maata kuvauksista.) Olin mukana joukkueessa, joka osallistui Uneton48-lyhytelokuvakilpailuun. Ideana oli tehdä lyhäri alusta loppuun 48 tunnin kuluessa. Ohjasin elokuvan yhdessä vaimoni Maria Petterssonin kanssa, ja olimme eilen illalla Andorrassa palauttamassa luomustamme yhdessä tuottajamme Elina Lindroosin kanssa. Palautustiskillä oli kuumottava laskuri. Olin itse paikalla ensimmäisenä, koska Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #72 – Shadows on the Wasteland
Non-fiction: Mike Stroud: Shadows on the Wasteland (Penguin, 1994) The copy I got from Amazon’s used books is signed! The book also has an unusually poetic title, with the reference to the T.S. Eliot poem Stroud also quotes at the beginning of the book: Who is the third who walks Continue Reading