Looking for a way to thank my Ice Friends who became backers on the Sidney Has No Horses – Documentary in Progress, I found some compelling taglines and excerpts from treatments.
Tagline: Deep Field Antarctica
It is said that people who work in Antarctica do so at first for the adventure, second for their friends, third for the money, and; if they return for a fourth season; it’s because they no longer fit in anywhere else.
Siple Dome Camp is an aircraft skiway 500 nautical miles from McMurdo Station.
Crossing an Ice Shelf the size of France, two ice streams, and countless crevasse fields, a crew of three is left to spend four months on the apex of a 2000-foot dome of snow.
The monotony of white is broken only by what they place upon it; three yellow mountain tents, a military issue, green, canvass tent (Jamesway), and a 10,000 gallon fuel bladder. The sky becomes the visual world. Amazing streaks, hummocks, bulbs, or carpets of flowing cloud-forms engulf the camp and minds are quickly, yet subtly, and permanently altered.
The crews will fuel aircraft, make weather observations, battle storms, and drag a 2-mile long aircraft ski-way at 12 miles per hour for weeks on end.
They sleep inches from the ice, melt snow for water, and dig everything out of the incessantly drifting snow. Though harsh and monotonous, crewmembers find themselves increasingly attached to the landscape, the camp, and the deep-field experience often while growing deeply irritated by each other.
The raw, crisp footage captures the landscape, living conditions, work, and social interactions. Long, un-narrated windows into camp life will be thinly peppered with journal entries, poetry, personal observations, original music, and essays; revealing the deeper nature of the camp’s inhabitants and the deep-field experience.
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