Light Pillars over Winter Towns: Reflections in the Night Sky
Coloured columns seem to rise above streets and rooftops in these light-pillar photographs. The effect can transform ordinary outdoor light...
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Piet Hein Eek’s Log-Clad Studio for Hans Liberg
Piet Hein Eek’s studio for performer Hans Liberg plays with the appearance of a stack of firewood. From a distance the log ends dominate; a...
Emma and Cinnamon: A Supervised Snowy Walk
Emma and the horse Cinnamon share a snowy walk in this family archive. The difference in their size makes a simple scene especially memorab...
Snow Swimming: A Winter Stunt Meets a Different Material
Snow swimming sounds like a playful change of setting: take the movements of a swimmer and replace the pool with a deep white snowbank. Thi...
An Iceberg Rolls near Argentina’s Upsala Glacier
A large piece of ice moves and rolls in the archive filmed near Argentina’s Upsala Glacier. The event turns a seemingly fixed blue shape in...
Tolbachik in Photographs: Andrew and Luda’s Volcanic Landscapes
Andrew and Luda’s Tolbachik photographs place intense orange light within a dark volcanic landscape. The contrast makes the scene feel othe...
Andrew Manske’s Polar Bear Mother and Cubs in Manitoba
Andrew Manske’s northern Manitoba footage follows a polar bear mother and her cubs in snow. The size difference and close movement between ...
Charlie and the Seal: An Antarctic Camera Encounter
A wildlife shoot takes an unexpected turn when a seal comes close to the camera operator. The Antarctic encounter appears in Charlie And Th...
MustangWanted’s Height Videos: How the Camera Communicates Exposure
A camera pointed down from a high structure can make the ground seem very far away. This archive’s stunt footage relies on that perspective...
A Young Moose Caught in a Gate: The Rescue Sequence
A young moose becomes trapped at a fence, prompting nearby residents to respond. The archive’s account describes the animal’s legs becoming...
Crystalapse in Iceland: A Landscape Film with a Personal Ending
Patrick and Henrick Shyu’s Iceland travel film changes tone near its end. After the landscapes, a marriage proposal gives the journey a per...
Signal Snowboards’ Heated Board: The Build and the Unanswered Test
Signal Snowboards’ heated-board experiment asks an entertaining design question: what changes when heat is deliberately added beneath a sno...
Split View Mountain Lodge: A Norwegian Home Shaped by Its Slope
Split View Mountain Lodge turns its shape towards several pieces of the Norwegian landscape. Timber surfaces give continuity to a building ...
A Tracked 1966 Volkswagen Bus Becomes a Snowbound DJ Booth
A classic Volkswagen bus fitted with tracks makes a wonderfully unexpected winter vehicle. The archive’s conversion pairs the familiar body...
Dan Price’s Compact Oregon Dwelling: Space for an Artist’s Life
Dan Price’s compact dwelling makes the entrance a major part of the story. The small opening and wooded surroundings introduce a life organ...
Stian Rekdal’s Iceland Time-Lapse: From a Road Journey to a Film
Stian Rekdal’s Iceland time-lapse turns a substantial road journey into a compact landscape film. The archive describes thousands of select...
Wawhiker’s Snowy Overnight: A Hot Shelter, Ground Insulation and Camp Routine
This overnight video follows a camper testing a hot-tent and hammock-shelter arrangement in snow. Equipment, food and a canine companion ma...
Antarctic Research Stations: Architecture for Work and Daily Life
Antarctic stations combine laboratories, living spaces and the practical demands of a remote environment. Their appearance makes more sense...
IMAGINE: Wingsuit Flight and Skiing Share the Mountain Frame
Wingsuit pilots and snow riders occupy the same mountain scene in this extract from IMAGINE: Life Spent on the Edge. The Nuit de la Glisse ...
Chasing Ice: Watching a Glacier Front Change in Minutes
The calving sequence associated with Chasing Ice makes a glacier front feel anything but stationary. Large sections move through the frame ...
Twenty-Two Boundary Photographs: Rivers, Mountains, Streets and the Equator
An international boundary can appear as a checkpoint, a cleared forest strip or a line that is barely visible on the ground. This archive’s...
Catch the Ice Dude: A Pool Jump Meets a Frozen Surface
An outdoor swimming pool supplies an instantly familiar setting for Catch the Ice Dude. The problem is that the expected open water has bee...
Captain Quinn’s Winter Challenge: A 2014 Internet Trend
Captain Quinn’s Winter Challenge video belongs to a 2014 trend of filmed cold-water immersions. Its challenge format encouraged participant...
The Barn in Going am Wilden Kaiser: Timber, Concrete and Alpine Views
The Barn, designed by Mostlikely in Going am Wilden Kaiser, borrows the familiarity of regional agricultural buildings while creating a con...
Apetor’s Norwegian Winter Films: Comedy in an Icy Setting
This collection from Sandefjord and Andebu uses Norwegian winter as the setting for a series of physical jokes and stunts. Camera position ...
Fletcher Meets Snow: Following the Falling Flakes
Fletcher's owner came home early on a snow day and introduced the cat to what was happening outside. Falling flakes became the subject ...
Jhaqueil Reagan’s Snowy Walk and an Unexpected Job Offer
Jhaqueil Reagan was walking toward a job interview when a conversation changed the direction of the day. In the original account, the eight...
An Opening in Pond Ice: What the Filmmaker Saw and What Remains Unknown
A dark opening in an otherwise frozen pond prompted the filmmaker of this archive to ask what was happening beneath the surface. It is a go...
Zoe’s First Skiing Days: A Family Film at Seventeen Months
Zoe’s family filmed her early experience on skis at seventeen months old. The short sequence is an affectionate record of a particular chil...
Let Me Take You to the Mountain: GoPro’s Andes Adventure
Travis Rice, John Jackson, Chris Davenport and Lynsey Dyer feature in a GoPro journey into the Andes. The film joins the search for terrain...
A First Drag-Lift Attempt in Veysonnaz
A first attempt on a drag lift becomes a memorable part of a ski trip to Veysonnaz, Switzerland. The clip’s humour comes from how different...
A Teenager’s Chairlift Fall: The ABC News Account
An ABC News account examined a teenager’s fall from a chairlift and included his explanation of the incident. The archive identifies him as...
Hot Water in Extreme Cold: What the Pale Cloud Shows
A container of hot water becomes a spreading white plume in this Russian winter demonstration shared by RT. The presenter gives an extreme-...
Duracell’s Montreal Bus Shelter: Warmth as a Cooperative Campaign
Waiting for a bus on a cold Montreal day gave Duracell a setting where its promise of warmth needed little explanation. The brand's pro...
Human Bowling: Devin Graham’s Snowy Adventure-Film Mashup
Devin Graham turns a snowy slope into an enormous bowling lane in Human Bowling – Bear Naked! The ball is an inflatable sphere, the pins ar...
Paper Shredder: Signal’s Unusual Snowboard Prototype
Signal Snowboards’ Paper Shredder experiment puts an unexpected material at the centre of a board-building episode. The interest is in seei...
The Tutu Project: Bob and Linda Carey’s Shared Photographic Story
Bob Carey’s pink-tutu photographs place an intentionally unexpected figure in ordinary and extraordinary landscapes. The humour became clos...
Mount Baker Road Gap: A Backflip Attempt and Its Landing
The landing is the part that separates this Mount Baker road-gap clip from a polished ski highlight. A skier attempts a backflip over the h...
Jay Venini’s Backyard Luge: A Sochi-Inspired Family Project
The Sochi Winter Olympics inspired Jay Venini to turn snow in his Long Island yard into a small sliding course. The result gave a family sn...
Everest Waste: The 2014 Rule and the Work beyond the Summit
Waste on Everest is a logistics problem as well as a visible environmental one. Equipment, packaging and human waste all require arrangemen...
Churchill in Google’s Panoramic Imagery: Looking around the Tundra
Google’s Churchill imagery offered a way to explore a polar-bear landscape without leaving a screen. The appeal is the ability to look arou...
The People vs Winter: James Herring’s Compilation of Lost Traction
Walking down a pavement, moving a car and clearing snow are ordinary winter jobs until the surface refuses to cooperate. The People vs Wint...
Chaya the German Shepherd Joins the Snow Shovelling
Chaya joins her owner outside while snow is being cleared. Her pawing at the snow creates a charming resemblance to a dog demonstrating an ...