Both films feature altered Super 8mm film footage of the regions. The former features the voice of Inuk Elder Naulaq LeDrew speaking about her home in Nunavut, Canada and the latter is about the Svalbard Archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic, narrated by wilderness guide Marte Agneberg Dahl. Part of her project The Dissolving Landscape are two short experimental films, Kajanaqtuq (2020) and Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun (2020). Kajanaqtuq (2020), Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada and Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun (2020), Svalbard, Norway "I want to capture these areas before they are permanently altered by climate change." I have also come to understand the accelerated pace at which the North is warming," Morton said. "I feel a power and mystery in these areas that is hard to describe. The journey deepened her appreciation for the Arctic and engendered a curiosity in her to visit its other regions. She began this project in 2016 while attending an artist residency on a ship in Svalbard, Norway. This is the question Ella Morton seeks to answer with her project, The Dissolving Landscape, a series of experimental analog photographs and short films that examine climate change in the Arctic and Subarctic landscapes of Canada and Nordic Europe. What are we losing, in terms of our spiritual connection to the land, as the climate rapidly changes? Climate Change Summit convenes, NPR's Picture Show is taking a look at work by artists and visual journalists that highlight climate change.
Tilting Storm (2018), Tilting, Fogo Island, Newfoundland, CanadaĮditor's note: As the 2021 U.N.
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