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SUMMARY:Screening of Ruth Maclennan's film: Call of North - Ruth Maclennan
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DESCRIPTION:Call of North was filmed near the Arctic Circle on the White S
 ea in northwest Russia. It follows people’s relationships with the sea\,
  and the changes associated with climate change and the geopolitical shift
  northward. The traumatic past of the ‘Zone’ – Stalin's labour camps
  – continues to haunt. The economic collapse and recent political tensio
 ns are alluded to obliquely\, hanging in the air.\n\nNorth occupies a myth
 ical place in Russia: ice maidens\, woodcutters\, wolves\, bears\, fishing
  and endless forests. The Arctic was the first Soviet frontier and is once
  again the focus of attention and speculation.\n\nCall of North is the cal
 l of the voices of a place. The matter of place\, the sounds of birds\, se
 a\, insects\, grass\, trees and wind\, boats\, trains and cars interweave 
 with the voices of marine biologists\, sailors\, fishermen\, a retired tea
 cher\, a kolkhoz worker and miner\, a telephone engineer\, a cook\, a hote
 lier\, a little boy\, and many others who live here. They tell of their ex
 periences. Some return to stories that haven't been fully told or to unfin
 ished business. There are warnings\, too\, of changes that are here alread
 y that could destroy what is left.\n
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography
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