PHOTO CREDIT: The above is a screenshot of the buliding where the workers work and live during the long winter months. A romance film shot in Antarctica and directed by a member of China's 27th and 28th Antarctic expeditions hits Chinese theatres this Friday. For all the movies based in New York, Chicago, and L.A., we’ve had precious few take place in the wintry tundra at the bottom of the globe — but director Dominic Sena is doing his part to help bring some Antarctic love to a theater near you with Whiteout, the Kate Beckinsale-led thriller opening this weekend. It is, in the words of Premiere’s Ethan Alter, “An example of a formula picture executed with the right mixture of professionalism and heart.”, If you were a lonely researcher suffering through another brutally cold week in Antarctica, your mind would probably start to wander — and when it did, thoughts of past relationships might not be far behind. The Head Trailer. It is no surprise then how excited I was to hear about the independent film South of Sanity, the first fictional movie to film entirely on location in Antarctica. Considered as mostly desertland, 98% of Antarctica is blanketed by ice averaging at least one mile in depth. They trusted one another completely and so acting in front of each other was easy. (Photo courtesy of BBC News.). Make a horror film, of course. A new romantic survival film, shot in vast ice-covered land of Antarctica, will hit Chinese screens this coming weekend. Filmmaker Keith Bearden has taken on the coming-of-age genre with a surrealist twist in his new film Antarctica.He wrote and directed the film which stars Chloë Levine, Kimie Muroya, Clea Lewis, Damian Young, and Bubba Weiler. With a population of maybe 4,400 in the summer and 1,100 in the winter, Antartica is considered a no-man’s land, unclaimed by any nation (according to the 1959 Antarctic Treaty). Antarctica: A Year On Ice feature film. Copyright © 2018 Fandango. The 2012 horror film South of Sanity is the first full-length fictional film to be shot entirely in Antarctica. Following the annual mating ritual of the Emperor penguin, director Luc Jacquet and his team showed viewers the incredibly arduous journey the birds endure every year, which includes going up to four months without food, hundreds of miles of lonely waddling, and — given that the males of the species huddle together for warmth during the long weeks when their mates are away — more bromance than an all-day Starsky & Hutch marathon. First horror film shot entirely in Antarctica. And more recently, two terrific 2006 films also claimed the icy continent as their setting. Predator (film) Antarctic Journal; Antarctica (1983 film) Antarctica (1991 film) Ape and Super-Ape Places such as Bouvet Island, the glacier-coated Norwegian territory that lies a thousand miles north of Antarctica. March of the Penguins Directed by Luc JacquetThis astonishing film, shot in the Antarctic, captures sights never seen before. Anderson project that adapted the long-running franchise mashup that had been entertaining comic readers and game fans for years. I’m not a huge horror movie fan, but I’m totally intrigued about this first movie filmed in Antarctica, especially after seeing its trailer. Everyday that is ... until something goes horribly wrong as 14 workers are holed-up on an isolated station for nine months. But comes winter, activities slow down. Casey research station — Tuesday, 4 May 2021, 12:12am local time Outside air temperature: −13.3°C | Wind speed: 11.1km/h In this new film, 'Till the End of the World', actor Mark Chao and actress Yang Zishan potray a pair of lovers brought together by a calamity. For example, according to Article 8 of the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, British law would apply at the British research station. The resulting documentary film – Antarctic Edge: 70° South – is impressive. Denies Beckinsale Body Double Rumors, Beckinsale On Catwoman, Wonder Woman, And Her Bond Girl Offer, Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer, Marvel Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer, Green Lantern: Finn Wittrock Will Star in the HBO Max Series as the DC Universe Hero, 5 Things To Know Before You Watch Jupiter’s Legacy, Vote in the Disney Animated Films Showdown – Round 1, Everything We Know About Stranger Things Season 4. With Anthony Powell, Genevieve Bachman, William Brotman, Michael Christiansen. With Anthony Powell, Genevieve Bachman, William Brotman, Michael Christiansen. With a few years under his belt for documentary filmmaking, Watson enjoyed the process of making South of Sanity with his friends and colleagues. Audiences were only too happy to make the journey to this Land, making it one of the year’s surprise hits, and though most critics rolled their eyes at its low-budget effects and hammy performances, others appreciated its throwback matinee vibe. Of course, the dinosaurs looked a heck of a lot like puppets — and the boat, for that matter, looked an awful lot like a model — but unless you’ve been to Antarctica yourself, who are you to judge? Copyright © 2018 Fandango. When he signed up to join the BAS, Watson was advised to consider pursuing side projects for the long winters of Antarctica. The good thing was they had lived there for a year, so were pretty used to it. Director Watson had six years of experience working in Antarctica as a mountaineering guide and Edwards, the scriptwriter, was the London-based BAS doctor. It has garnered tremendous press coverage in the United Kingdom and is already attracting media attention in North America. With their unique situation working on a research base in Antarctica, Watson and Edwards are at a vantage point, way ahead of everyone else in the industry on the film location front. A new romantic survival film, shot in vast ice-covered land of Antarctica, will hit Chinese screens this coming weekend. Being the fifth largest continent (5.4 million square miles) after Asia, Africa, South America and North America, Antarctica is almost twice the size of Australia. A romance shot in Antarctica is set to hit Chinese theatres on Feb 2. All the actors knew almost everything about each other. In the end, we made the decision to shoot all exterior outward facing coverage on film, and all interior and scene-like footage on the RED One. Declaring himself disinterested in “fluffy penguins,” Herzog instead assembled an acerbic, thoughtful nature documentary focused less on the Antarctic landscape than the people who live there. Matt Edwards, who met Watson on a previous expedition and works as a doctor at the base, was writing a script for a short horror story. This was the first feature fiction film shot entirely in the Antarctic, by a BAS crew with spare time and creativity on their hands. (c) We felt a desire to shoot the exteriors of the ocean and Antarctica on film. HBO's The Head (2020) TV mini-series trailer has been released and stars John Lynch, Katharine O’Donnelly, Alexandre Willaume, Amelia Hoy. Since the budget for South of Sanity was a shoestring one, they only had one camera to film the movie with. Others get involved in woodworking or black and white photography. Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there. Scott Cohen’s feature film debut, “Red Knot,” was filmed aboard a ship bound for Antarctica. PHOTO CREDIT: The above three images are screenshots from the movie. Make a horror film, of course. It is situated in the Antarctic region of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. During the investigation, the rescue team’s only clue as to what had happened is from a diary found much later. An example for this might be our – admittedly – rather crazy idea to shoot our own movie in Antarctica. The frigidly cold weather in Antarctica made filming challenging for the cast and crew. Similarly, I would have loved to be in a position to take some Cine lenses with me given I don’t know when I’d next get to shoot Antarctica, but the speed at which we’d be moving, the limited baggage and my desire to be able to use Canon’s excellent autofocus when needed meant EF … Personally, I use fully manual lenses while shooting films – I like to have 100% control over focusing, I very often focus manually when I want, and when I have such a vision. Scott of the Antarctic is a 1948 British adventure film which depicts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition and his attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole in Antarctica. We’re still not sure we have any idea, which is probably just fine with X-Files creator Chris Carter. The continent is the coldest, driest, and windiest of all continents. The film takes its audience to “a place where no horror film has gone before - Antarctica.”. The cast (all 14 of the actors including Watson) consists entirely of Watson’s colleagues and co-workers at the station—Marine biologists, geologists, doctor (Edwards) and mechanics, all without any real acting experience. Over the top? The film, which was by Ealing Studios, more or less faithfully recreates the real-life events that befell the Terra Nova Expedition in 1912. Till the End of the World, adapted from the director Wu Youyin's novel of the same name, centers on the adventure of an arrogant millionaire and a self-contained female scientist. With their jobs being mostly nine-to-five with weekends off and one week of vacation each year (on an 18-month contract), they were able to put together this incredible film. It became a bit tricky with the ‘dead people’ as they shivered, so they were carefully edited to get rid of the movement. The Lost Zeppelin, a movie based on the crash and rescue of the airship Italia near the North Pole in the late 1920’s, was filmed on Hollywood sound stages in 1929. And with that, friends, let’s move on to the story behind how it all happened for South of Sanity. At this point, human beings have figured out how to colonize pretty much any place on Earth — which means that the few places that remain uninhabited should probably stay that way. But it was also a huge hit (a sequel’s on the way) and a winner with critics like the Wall Street Journal’s Joe Morgenstern, who pronounced it “the kind of musical comedy that might have swept the world if MGM had been based in Antarctica instead of Culver City.”, With the possible exception of Werner Herzog, everyone thinks penguins are cute — but it took this 2005 documentary to teach us that they’re also some of the most faithful mates and devoted parents on the planet. While documentaries have previously been shot exclusively in Antarctica, this is the first fictional film known to be shot entirely on location on Earth's coldest, southernmost continent. We started from Ushuaia in Argentina and went to Port Williams in Chile, rounded Cape Horn and crossed the Drake Passage towards the Melchior Islands in Antarctica. A visually stunning chronicle of what it is like to live in Antarctica for a full year, including winters isolated from the rest of the world, and enduring months of darkness in … Still, 9 Songs‘ lack of, ahem, moving parts is oddly fitting, in a way, as it left some critics feeling a lot like Matt. 'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. Its large supporting cast included James Robertson Justice, Derek Bond, Kenneth More, John Gregson, Barry Letts and Christopher Lee. Thanks! What do the members of the British Antarctic Survey team do in their spare time? The film was shot by Kirk Watson, a British documentary filmmaker with six years of experience in the Antarctic, during time off on evenings and weekends while he was working at the Halley Research Station, one of eight bases maintained by the British Antarctic Survey. Plue plans to distribute South of Sanity via iTunes in early 2013 along with Amazon Instant Video, Flixscene and Xbox Live. Plue’s goal is to create an “Antarctica movement” by working on projects with the people who work and live on the continent. 'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. by Locations Hub. Categories: Films by continent of shooting location. Take a look through the reviews for Whiteout, as well as the rest of our Total Recall archives. Mark Chao suffered snow blindness and even fell into a crevasse in the ice. And my personal favorite ... Walt Disney’s Eight Below tells the story of two Antarctic explorers who must leave their team of sled dogs behind as they fend for their survival in a snow storm. Called 'South of Sanity', the horror movie was made by Scottish climbing instructor and documentary maker Kirk Watson while working on the icy continent for the British Antarctic Survey. I shot with a F and F2, Canon 7S all manual mode, no drive, as Jim Jones mentions film can become brittle and I was afraid that power wind could break the film. The DVD was supposed to arrive last Monday, in time for me to give you a personal review about it in this article. 'South of Sanity' the first ever fictional feature film shot entirely in Antarctica. Time’s Jay Cocks, for one, promised that “instant second childhood is guaranteed in less than 90 minutes.”, Most of the movies on our list explore the strange creatures and often paranormal happenings of the coldest place on Earth — but Werner Herzog, ever the iconoclast, took a different approach for his 2007 documentary. PHOTO CREDIT: The above are screenshots of the base from “South of Sanity.”. This movie was shot during our 20 days trip to Antarctica in December 2014 to January 2015. First horror film shot entirely in Antarctica. Although Antarctica has never been a film location for a fictional film before, it has been the the setting for many movies in the past. It’s part of what makes Antarctica special. POWERED BY REEL-SCOUT, INC. For these poor folks, whose adventures were immortalized in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ 1918 novel and adapted for the screen in Kevin Connor’s 1975 The Land That Time Forgot, becoming prisoners of war was just the beginning of a journey that ended up taking them all the way to Antarctica — where they discovered a menagerie of supposedly extinct creatures, including dinosaurs and Neanderthal humans. “We were planning to shoot the ending scene in a location that supposedly will have snow,” he continued. Director Dena Seidel and her crew have made one of the most informative films shot on location in the polar regions since Robert Flaherty’s groundbreaking Eskimo epic Nanook of the North was made at … Till the End of the World. In the past, documentaries have featured the lives of penguins and glaciers, but the transcendent, magnificent natural landscape of Antarctica has so much more to offer as a film location. It is situated in the Antarctic region of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. Released worldwide on Halloween this year (today), South of Sanity is a British film styled similar to the American horror film The Blair Witch Project. Shot entirely in the Antarctic, the horror movie's cast and crew were made up of fellow BAS contractors and staff. Excerpts from the movie "The Secret Land" In 1947 Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal sent a naval task force to Antarctic including Admiral Nimitz, Admiral Krusen and Admiral Byrd, called "Operation Highjump". SOUTH OF SANITY (2012) (U.K.) Directed by Kirk Watson and Mathew Edwards, featuring the directors and 12 scientists and contractors from the British Antarctic Survey. But everyone who’s familiar with the horror genre will immediately recognize after watching South of Sanity that it seems eerily similar to John Carpenter’s The Thing, a 1982 horror film about a group of scientists in Antarctica as they confront a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims. Scottish director makes ad-hoc horror on the icy continent. The above image is of an interior scene where six of the 14 people wintering at the Antarctic research station have their breakfast around a conference table. Seeing it on the release schedule got us to thinking about other movies based in Earth’s southernmost continent — and naturally, we decided to turn it into a Total Recall, one in which we give you a taste of what you can expect on a trip to the South Pole (short answer: penguins and aliens). We didn’t have actors as such but the fact that they knew each other so well meant they could act out in front of others and not get embarrassed. For those who can’t make the event itself, we’ve picked out 10 further films for armchair explorers. That’s what happens to Mumble, the star of the film, after he runs afoul of his tribe’s elders by ignoring the age-old tradition of finding a mate by singing a “heartsong,” opting instead to tap out the rhythm to “Boogie Wonderland.” (Having spent their lives exposed to the elements, most penguins are apparently not fans of Earth, Wind & Fire.) I love that the movie was filmed at a real research station. The film’s premiere was, by then, just five months away. Watson says: He [Edwards] wrote it and I filmed it, and it turned out to be a really good project. Scottish director makes ad-hoc horror on the icy continent. In his interview with BBC News, Watson shared: We filmed a couple of day scenes on a weekend and the rest was shot in the dark just to make the film darker. Bouvetøya, as the Norwegians call it, is so inhospitable that it doesn’t contain much more than a research station, some moss, and a few penguins — oh, and a centuries-old subterranean pyramid that serves as a battleground for the endless war between the extraterrestrial races we refer to as Aliens and Predators. PHOTO CREDIT: Kirk Watson, the director, managed to film a few scenes in the last days of daylight. Sections. Since in real life everyone involved in the movie got along well as a group, it was difficult for them to act as if they hated each other in the film. Antarctica is a place I’m forever curious about, but probably may never get to see in person. Having said that, crimes committed in Antartica (such as the ones portrayed in South of Sanity) will be tried and sentenced. The 1,000 to 5,000 folks residing there throughout the year work at research stations scattered across Antarctica. 15 talking about this. John Mills played Scott, with a supporting cast which included James Robertson Justice, Derek Bond, Kenneth More, John Gregson, Barry Letts and Christopher Lee. After some brainstorming, they decided to make a feature film together based on that script. (and loose remake of Howard Hawks’ 1951 The Thing from Another World). What do the members of the British Antarctic Survey team do in their spare time? Although Antarctica has never been a film location for a fictional film before, it has been the the setting for many movies in the past. It follows everyday life on an Antarctic research station. For all the movies based in New York, Chicago, and L.A., we’ve had precious few take place in the wintry tundra at the bottom of the globe — but director Dominic Sena is doing his part to help bring some Antarctic love to a theater near you with Whiteout, the Kate Beckinsale-led thriller opening this weekend. It filled in a lot of spare time for everyone there. October 31, 2012 Alien vs. Thoughts of Antarctica bring forth images of snowy, icy landscapes, magnificent glaciers, frozen tundra, and mystical northern lights. Predator, a Paul W.S. That conflict was unwittingly re-opened by a team of unfortunate research scientists in 2004’s Alien vs. Till the End of the World, adapted from the director Wu Youyin's novel of the same name, centers on the adventure of an arrogant millionaire and a self-contained female scientist. Serious work-related accidents are not uncommon in the Antarctic, and New Zealand’s government recently commemorated several on-the-job Antarctic fatalities. Called South of Sanity, the British horror film focuses on 14 people, isolated for nine months at an Antarctic research … “We were planning to shoot the ending scene in a location that supposedly will have snow,” he continued. In addition to directing, Watson also doubled as make-up artist for the movie, mixing food coloring with children’s face-paint, flour and syrup to create the bloody effects on the film’s victims. The non-existent budget also meant they had be more creative. Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, encapsulating the South Pole. In the end, we made the decision to shoot all exterior outward facing coverage on film, and all interior and scene-like footage on the RED One. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. I used a seliumum (sp?) ‘Antarctica’: Interviewing filmmaker Keith Bearden. Olivia Thirlby In an article for the Herald Scotland, Watson says: In the summer you don’t have any spare time, you work very long days helping with the science as the daylight lasts for 24 hours. It contains, in the words of eFilmCritic’s Rob Gonsalves, “everything you could want to know about horror filmmaking.”. Casey webcam image and timelapse movie. I ordered my copy of South of Sanity a few days ago from Amazon. Helen Cho, director of special operations and producer at Zero Point Zero Production, sat down with the Antarctica episode crew to talk about what it was like filming and living at the bottom of the world. Then imagine something even worse.”, Poor Cuba Gooding Jr. Just a few years after he shivered his way through the critical turkey Snow Dogs, Paul Walker came along with another wintry canine adventure — also produced by Disney — and melted the hearts of critics and audiences alike. “It’s unlike after you finish your job in the UK, where you have to go shopping for groceries or mow the lawn. Happy Feet’s penguins entered the scene as the first computer-animated film entirely set on Antarctica. In the winter, it gets as cold as −89 °C (−129 °F). Antarctica has always been a mysterious place to all of us. But as for what it all meant, and how swarms of bees and buckets of black slime fit into it all? Hidden categories: CatAutoTOC generates no TOC. We had several actors with mild hypothermia during the filming. But on the other hand, working in a tightly-packed and isolated environment has a few perks. The work days are mostly nine-to-five and everyone has more time to pursue his or her own personal interests. Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Werner Herzog, Scott Rowland, Stefan Pashov, Doug MacAyeal. An upcoming romantic film shot in Antarctica, recently concluded its shoot in the world's coldest continent. The film’s premiere was, by then, just five months away. PHOTO CREDIT: Photo of the cast and crew of South of Sanity - via BBC News. Some of my favorite shots in the show are shot during that very early part of the day. In his inimitably unsentimental style, Herzog surveys the icy continent while probing the psychological makeup of residents like iceberg geologist Douglas MacAyeal, zoologist Jan Pawlowski, and Henry Kaiser, the guitarist/research diver whose underwater footage drew Herzog to the project in the first place. Before we talk more about the film, let’s briefly visit Antarctica. Unfortunately, Matt and Lisa’s love story wasn’t enough to keep most critics entertained — even with the unsimulated naughty bits that caused controversy in the film’s native England and led to an unrated release here. This was the first feature fiction film shot entirely in the Antarctic, by a BAS crew with spare time and creativity on their hands. “So we had to shut down.” Finally, we leave you with — yes — more penguin footage: Critics Consensus: 9 Looks Great, But The Plot’s Weak, Warner Bros. While documentaries have previously been shot exclusively in Antarctica, this is the first fictional film known to be shot entirely on location on Earth's coldest, southernmost continent. We felt there was a meaningful logic to using film for outward facing and digital for inward facing. The first fictional feature film has been shot in Antarctica. I think I watched that video a few months back when I initially was planning my trip to Antarctica (but decided in the end to postpone for a few years). But with Hurricane Sandy, the delivery date has now been postponed to sometime in the near future. It’s clear that someone buried a giant lab out there, and used it to store what seemed to be alien bodies in a state of suspended animation — and there may have been an alien vessel under that. Up to now, it has been impossible even for a major Hollywood studio to even think of filming a few days in Antarctica. So our actors suffered a bit in the cold as we had people sitting outside for ages, or playing dead people lying in the snow. There is now a 2011 remake of The Thing, the setting of which is also - you guessed it - Antarctica. To fill in their free time some people learn the guitar or other musical instruments, or get into photography or learn a language. All rights reserved. In pictures: Antarctica horror film first Scottish-based climbing instructor and documentary-maker, Kirk Watson, has shot the first fictional feature film in Antarctica. No other fictional movies have ever been filmed in Antarctica. South of Sanity was, said Watson, “something we can all get behind, a project we can all do.”. In this new film, 'Till the End of the World', actor Mark Chao and actress Yang Zishan potray a pair of lovers brought together by a calamity. For almost eight years now, Watson has worked as a guide at the Halley Research Station (a British Antarctic Survey (“BAS”) base) where he leads scientists across glaciers and mountains, looking out for their safety. In addition to being the first horror film made entirely in Antarctica, South of Sanity is also the movie featuring the most unique filming locations in cinema history. Movies Set in Antarctica. In the film, I used shots from cruises to the Weddell Sea, South Georgia, several Selma expeditions to the South Shetland Islands, and the footage from the Rossa Sea cruise. With South of Sanity, Watson and Edwards have made an enormous contribution to the history of films. It was a really remarkable experience. Terms of UseLegal Copyright Privacy Policy. But in 2012, he and colleague Matt Edwards decided to use their free time to shoot a horror film, South of Sanity, while stationed at Rothera Research Station in Antarctica. Olivia Thirlby (c) We felt a desire to shoot the exteriors of the ocean and Antarctica on film. Joel Plue, executive producer of South of Sanity, thinks the made-in-Antarctica movie will blow viewers away. Votes: 17,374 | Gross: $0.94M A visually stunning chronicle of what it is like to live in Antarctica for a full year, including winters isolated from the rest of the world, and enduring months of darkness in … So wrap up warm for our list of icily brilliant films set within the Arctic and Antarctic circles… Nanook of the North (1922) Director Robert Flaherty There is none of this in Antarctica so we filled some of it making this film. 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