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A Year Along the Abandoned Road

A Year Along the Abandoned Road

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 1, 1991

Runtime

0h 12m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

74%

Original Title

Året gjennom Børfjord

Production Companies

Camera Magica

Director

Morten Skallerud

Description

A portrait of a deserted fisherman's village in Northern Norway called Børfjord - a place with an incredible personality in the middle of a magnificent Arctic nature. The 12 minute short film was filmed in 70mm Super Panavision, using a specially developed "nature animation" technique. The result is a magic flight in one single shot, along the remains of an internal village road. At the same time a whole year passes by at 50 000 times normal speed! Most of the year, the village of Børfjord lies empty with virgin snow between cold houses. People show up only during a short and hectic summer season. But the cycles of nature go on as they have always done, totally independent of what people might do.