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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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