La Banquisa

The Sea Ice

Direction: Sergio H. Martín
Screenplay: Rodrigo Alonso Kahlo, Sergio H. Martín
Production company: Bárbaro Cine
Production: Sergio H. Martín, Patricia Ordaz Cruz
Executive production: Patricia Ordaz Cruz, Sergio H. Martín
Cinematography: Oskar Omdal, Paul Berge
Editing: Sergio H. Martín
Sound: Sergio H. Martín
Duration: 00:10:00
Original format: 16mm
Dialogues: Spanish
Subtitles: English, French
Country: Mexico, Spain
Year: 2022
In 1925 a polar expedition led by the explorer Roald Amundsen managed to reach 88ºNorth, the northernmost latitude ever reached by a man at that time. How to represent the conquest of a place that is an absolutely empty geographical abstraction?

Festivals

Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival | Czechia, Oct 2022
Festival de cine contemporáneo Black Canvas | Mexico, Oct 2022
Lima Alterna Festival Internacional de Cine | Peru, Oct 2022
ULTRAcinema - Cine experimental y foundfootage | Mexico, Nov 2023
La mida no importa / Size doesn't matter | Spain, Jan 2024