SILENT SNOW
The Arctic plains are an eminent example of nature's untouched beauty: an endless nothing in which only few know how to survive. But dangerous pesticides are silently accumulating here, poisoning its inhabitants. A young Inuit woman investigates the sources of this pollution. Her journey takes her to three different continents, Asia, South America and Africa. The recent developments in the Arctic are a disturbing preview of the consequences of structural pollution of the environmental system worldwide.
2011, The Netherlands, 14 min.
Prod./ Script / Dir. Jan van den Berg
Co-Author: Pipaluk Knudsen-Ostermann
Dir. of Phot.: Viraj Singh, Jan van den Berg
Edit.: Boris Everts
Sound: Bart Jilesen
Jan van den Berg
Writers, artists and filmmakers are working together in this production company, founded by Jan van den Berg, who in the early seventies started making films from his original field of study, cultural anthropology. During his fieldwork at the Leiden university he made his first film: Olverenos (1975).
Filmography
The Embrace (1990), Bye Jan (1992), Taming the Floods (2000), Seven Dreams of Tibet (2004), Deacon of Death (2004), Silent Snow (2011).