Imagine a remote corner of Alaska finally getting connected to the internet, and you can witness it! Interested? If so, are you wondering what this change will mean for the islanders? Filmmaker Ian Purnell has you covered on both fronts with his debut feature Arctic Link, a documentary of epic proportions in more ways than one.
The film world premieres on Monday, March 16 in the main competition program of Cph:dox, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, whose 23rd edition runs through March 22.
Reminder how we mentioned that the doc was epic? “In the Arctic Ocean, a colossal ship drifts along, while thousands of kilometers of fiber optic cable slide from the deck into the dark depths of the sea,” reads a synopsis.”
If you need more evidence of the project’s scale, let’s just mention that the filmmaker worked on it for 10 years. The Cph:dox website even highlights this…
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