Video of the making of Over the Horizon

Abstract

This video capture Jean Brundrit while she was one of two artists travelled on the research vessel SA Agulhas 2, with scientists, engineers, helicopter crew and sailors to the ice shelf. On the journey she photographed the sea, icebergs, the continental ice shelf and sea ice, processing her film in her cabin, and continuing to fashion ice lenses in the research ship’ laboratory.

The images of Antarctica are an impressionistic play of light and colour, with little form. Blues, greys and whites dominate the fields of colour, so that the photographs are almost abstractions of the space. The images, with little form to hold onto, give one the impression of something majestic and magnificent, but also something ungraspable, something that is melting and slipping away. It is here that the deep concerns of the project lie, in environmental concerns about rapid climate change, and the changes in sea ice and the continental ice shelf that have been observed in recent years. This lead to an exhibition and the publication of her art works by the Antarctic Legacy with the title Over the Horizon