Chamisso’s Shadow (2016), German avant-garde director Ulrike Ottinger’s filmic journey to the lands and people of the Bering Strait region will receive its UK premiere at the Regent Street Cinema over the weekend of Friday 20 – Sunday 22 July 2018.
Divided into three chapters, the twelve-hour long film will be shown over three consecutive days and be complemented by introductions from the curator and lecturer Helen de Witt and Jean McNeill, writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey (2005-6).
Inspired by the sea expeditions and writings of 18th and 19th century explorers and their accompanying naturalists, particularly Adelbert von Chamisso, this epic travelogue combines grand cinematography, detailed observations and a many-voiced commentary to create a unique ethnographically inflected documentary essay on the interplay of culture, politics and nature in this remote northern region between the Eurasian and American continents.
Details on the screening schedule can be found here.
