47˚C, Pseudotachylyte and Prosperous Mountain (15)

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47˚C
Sierra Nevada, California, 2019. World-leading climate change scientist Professor Camille Parmesan and evolutionary biologist Professor Michael C Singer have conducted fieldwork on the ecology and evolution on the Edith's Checkerspot butterfly since 1968. The film is narrated through their investigations and discoveries during fieldwork, and is a glimpse into their lifetime dedication to this study. During their search for these vulnerable insects, we are presented with a microcosm universe seen in relation to global climate change patterns.

Filmed on location in Sierra Nevada, California, USA. June 2019

Director: Heidi Morstang, 2022
Running time: 25 mins

Pseudotachylyte
In the documentary, the filmmaker follows a group of geoscientists to the Lofoten Islands. She describes how Pseudotachylyte portrays scientists exploring seismic landscapes through the microscopic view of the world to an understanding of deep time.

Director: Heidi Morstang, 2019
Running time: 54 mins

Prosperous Mountain
Prosperous Mountain was filmed at Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the High Arctic, which archives duplicates of food crop seeds for future generations. The film presents the ecologically fragile landscape of the High Arctic where the vault is located and observes human interventions of mining, transport and global seed storage. From a detached distance, and without dialogue, the camera portrays the complexities of human interests that converge at this apparent beacon of sustainable futures that portentously foreshadows plant species extinctions.

Director: Heidi Morstang, 2014
Running time: 15 mins 49 sec