Seminar Presentaions


Polar Filmmaking
Presented by Eric Philips

Eric Philips has pioneered new techniques in polar travel combing skis, kites and kayaks. He and his companion Jon Muir, are the only Australians to have skied to both the North and South Poles. Eric has been involved in numerous film productions including Chasing the Midnight Sun (Screening on Monday 16 June 6pm), and Icetrek North Pole, which documents his difficult and dangerous expedition across the Arctic Ocean.
Eric will discuss the delights and difficulties of filming in extreme latitudes. Using hands-on demonstrations, together with highlights from his polar films, Eric will share his insights on how to combat difficulties with cold, moisture, power and lack of ‘base camp facilities’.

Antarctic Adventure Theatre: Tuesday 17 June 6pm
Free seminar

 

Under the Ice in Antarctica
Presented by Martin Riddle and Paul Goldsworthy, AAD

The Human Impacts Research Program at the Australian Antarctic Division is investigating the environmental impacts of old waste disposal sites in Antarctica, many of which are situated adjacent to the shore. Both conventional and digital photography and video have been used to document sea-bed communities in the Casey region and to identify changes caused by contamination leaching from the tip. The seminar will present the techniques used, discuss some of the practicalities of working under sea-ice and will use both still photography and video to illustrate the diversity of marine life in Antarctica.

Bond Store, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Wednesday 18 June 6pm
Free seminar

 

December 2nd, 1911: Hobart’s Antarctic Film History
Presented by Quentin Turnour

In the days before illustrated newspapers, radio or television, Hobart would often turn out en masse when celebrity visitors came to visit the British Empire’s most far-flung capital. They turned out especially on one day, a warm Sunday afternoon early December 1911, almost a third of Hobart’s population lined the banks of the Derwent to see off the S.Y. Aurora and Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition.
Four months later, in early March 1912, Amundsen’s polar vessel, the Fram, weighed anchor in the Derwent with the unexpected news that the Pole had been claimed first for Norway. It was a moment when mass communications were just beginning to be able to record and disseminate events, shaping historic records in the way we understand today.
Utilising these early graphic images – the still photographs, the unique motion picture record of Mawson’s departure, popular news accounts of the day, telegraphic messages - film curator and researcher Quentin Turnour explores the social history of Hobart’s Edwardian Antarctic ‘mania’ and its connection to the history of Antarctic exploration.

Antarctic Adventure Theatre: Thursday 19 June 6pm
Free seminar

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