This is the short version of Anthony Powell talking about the difficulties in dealing with subzero conditions in making his film Antarctic – A Year on Ice. The film was shot with a DSLR and took over 10 years in the making.
Powell spent 15 months at the bottom of the world capturing the aurora australis and the brutal beauty of the ice continent. The pictures are incredible.
Interview by Kent Gunnufson in 2013.
Antarctic – A Year on Ice went on to win numerous awards on the international film festival circuit. Powell's footage of the southern lights — shot in conditions that regularly destroyed camera equipment — stands as some of the most extraordinary nature photography ever captured.
The film offers a rare insight into what daily life is actually like at the South Pole: the isolation, the cold, the darkness of the polar winter, and the overwhelming beauty that makes it all worthwhile.