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Single on Ice
Television (Full Length) – 1999
This 1999 documentary goes behind the scenes with veteran Antarctic filmmaker Mike Single, as he films icebergs in the Southern Ocean. To Single they’re "ice creatures" and his mission is to get to their dynamic "essence". He and his crew face time pressure, storms, cabin fever, and challenges shooting underwater. Some of Single's shots of epic ice sculptures, calving glaciers, crabeater seals, gentoo penguins, humpback whales and trademark time-lapse cloudscapes also appeared in his documentaries Crystal Ocean (a 2000 Emmy Award-winner), and Katabatic.
A fervour for combining leading-edge filmmaking with a musician’s talent and an explorer’s passion, has given him a lifestyle straight out of the golden age of adventure, but it also produces films that offer rare insight into nature’s power.– Narrator Peter Hayden on Mike Single
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