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Short Film
Thirty Below
Eleven minutes about the cold, made by a crew that could only work in twenty-minute stretches.
Watch trailer- Location
- Churchill, Manitoba
- Year
- 2024
- Runtime
- 11 min
- Format
- Observational short
Trailer
Synopsis
Thirty Below is a short film about what a winter town does when the temperature stops being weather and starts being infrastructure.
There is no narration. The film is built from the sounds and the rhythms of a place where every trip outside is planned in advance.
The shoot was governed by battery life. Everything in the film was captured in the window between the camera warming up and the camera giving up.
Our role
- Director and camera
- Shot in twenty-minute working windows at minus thirty-one.
- Sound
- Location recording only, with no artificial light or added score.
- Editing and colour
- Flat-graded master plus a separate captioned version.
Production highlights
- Shot in twenty-minute working windows at minus thirty-one
- Batteries carried inside a jacket between every setup
- No artificial light used anywhere in the film
- Delivered flat-graded with a separate captioned version
Stills from the shoot
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