Climate change has made the fjords of northern Greenland — some of the most isolated terrain on Earth — accessible for a few weeks a year. Denmark sent a crew, including scientists and artists, to explore the area — and documentary director Daniel Dencik was on hand to film. The movie reveals some of the most stunning landscape cinematography imaginable, while everyone on the isolated ship waxes philosophical — as who would not?
A marine biologist, the sole woman, sadly reflects on the accelerating rate of extinctions. The geologist, of course, sees humans as a blip on the vast scale of Earth’s time. And one of the artists, discussing climate change, says sardonically, “Maybe [people] don’t need two cars. Maybe you need a raft.”
It is slow, talky, but full of insight, and not as depressing as one might fear. “There’s a lot of hope in a brutal landscape like this,” says a scientist toward the end.