Film – Burning Ice

80 minute film directed by Peter Gilbert produced by David Buckland

Featuring the artists and musicians Jarvis Cocker, Ryuichi Sakomoto, Laurie Anderson, Martha Wainwright, Robyn Hitchcock, Leslie Feist, KT Tunstall, Lemn Sissay, Marcus Brigstocke and many others. In 2009, David Buckland/ Cape Farewell produced Burning Ice, a feature length film produced in partnership with Cactus 3 in New York. The film was commissioned by Sundance Television, USA, and was first broadcast on the Sundance Channel on 25th May 2010.

Directed by Chicago based director, Peter Gilbert (Hoop Dreams and At the Death House Door), Burning Ice documents Cape Farewell’s 2008 expedition to Disko Bay, in West Greenland. The expedition crew included musicians Laurie Anderson, Jarvis Cocker, Feist, Robyn Hitchcock, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shlomo, KT Tunstall, and Martha Wainwright, the British comedian Marcus Brigstocke, artists David Buckland, Sophie Calle, and Chris Wainwright, and the architect Sunand Prasad, amongst the forty five artists and scientists who joined the extraordinary voyage.

The film follows the artists and scientists as they tackle a collective response to climate change in the High Arctic and their subsequent performances at Latitude Festival and recording new material.