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Matinee: 'Ice Memories'
4 January 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 585th in our series of Saturday matinees today: Ice Memories.
This 4:15 video produced by Iliano Films shows photographer Ingo Rasp slip into the bowels of a glacier to extract an ice core.
Rasp, who is also an architect, is an architectural and landscape photographer who documents contemporary Swiss architecture. But he also purues his own projects that highlight global climate change and the impact of humans on our environment.
He uses abstraction and beauty as a visual language to reduce a specific scene to its essence, exposing its essential characteristics in an approachable way.
Indeed, as this video show, it isn't just approachable but dramatic. And beautiful.
This particular project was supported by the Ice Memory Foundation. The foundation "aims to collect, save, and manage ice cores from selected glaciers in danger of degradation or disappearance, with a view to preserving the information they contain for decades and centuries to come."
In fact, there are scenes in this video that are absolutely terrifying when you consider the fragility of the glacier that Rasp is exploring. At any moment, it seems, the ice walls could collapse on him.
But he returns to the surface with an ice core he illuminates at the end of the day before we see some of his artistic renderings of his findings, which end up in a gallery where you an see more of his work.