Framing Antarctica: Argentina’s Icy Film Legacy
posted April 14, 2022
Argentinians have been making films about Antarctica for 120 years, but they’ve been collecting and preserving them for far fewer. Now, the Museo del Cine Palbo C. Ducrós Hicken, in Buenos Aires, is running a major project to preserve that distinctive film legacy. To date the project has identified some 100 Antarctic films in various archives or in the hands of private collectors, and has begun to preserve and digitize as many as possible while also screening some for the public.