Burning Ice
Directed by Peter Gilbert
Saturday, November 23, 2013, 1:00 PM
Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario
Panel discussion to follow
Production still from the film Burning Ice, taken near Disko Bay, Greenland, 2008.
Directed by Peter Gilbert, United Kingdom, 2010 (80 min.)
Produced by Cape Farewell and Cactus 3, in association with Sundance Television
Directed by Chicago based director, Peter Gilbert (Hoop Dreams, American Dream, and At the Death House Door), Burning Ice documents Cape Farewell’s 2008 expedition to Disko Bay, in West Greenland. The expedition crew included musicians Laurie Anderson, Jarvis Cocker, Feist, Robyn Hitchcock, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shlomo, KT Tunstall, and Martha Wainwright, the British comedian Marcus Brigstocke, artists David Buckland, Sophie Calle, and Chris Wainwright, and the architect Sunand Prasad, amongst the forty five artists and scientists who joined the extraordinary voyage.
For more information and tickets: www.planetinfocus.org
