Island on edge
Tasmania’s feel-good mood has given way to a bittersweet fight over versions of the future, writes Natasha Cica in Inside Story • IN Aleksei Popogrebsky’s film How I Ended This Summer, screening at Hobart’s State Cinema at the moment, the lone inhabitants of a remote Russian Arctic island – Sergei a...
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ftapo:oai:apo.org.au:24654 2023-05-15T15:02:26+02:00 Island on edge 2011-04-28 00:00:00 http://apo.org.au/node/24654 unknown Inside Story http://apo.org.au/node/24654 Article 2011 ftapo 2020-05-20T09:43:47Z Tasmania’s feel-good mood has given way to a bittersweet fight over versions of the future, writes Natasha Cica in Inside Story • IN Aleksei Popogrebsky’s film How I Ended This Summer, screening at Hobart’s State Cinema at the moment, the lone inhabitants of a remote Russian Arctic island – Sergei and Pavel – fall out. The problem starts smallish, with a fixable and forgivable failing of moral courage on Pavel’s part. Neither man fixes or forgives, however, and they become locked in mortal combat, driven by fear and suspicion to a kind of codependent madness. The ending – involving contaminated trout, and a final Slavic embrace – is bittersweet. It’s a timely tale for Tasmania. As our own summer ends on our own remote island, are we poised to pick new fights or revive old feuds for the long, dark nights ahead…? Read the full article Photo: Matthew Newton Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Australian Policy Online (Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology) Arctic Arctic Island ENVELOPE(-74.766,-74.766,62.234,62.234) Lone ENVELOPE(11.982,11.982,65.105,65.105) |
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Tasmania’s feel-good mood has given way to a bittersweet fight over versions of the future, writes Natasha Cica in Inside Story • IN Aleksei Popogrebsky’s film How I Ended This Summer, screening at Hobart’s State Cinema at the moment, the lone inhabitants of a remote Russian Arctic island – Sergei and Pavel – fall out. The problem starts smallish, with a fixable and forgivable failing of moral courage on Pavel’s part. Neither man fixes or forgives, however, and they become locked in mortal combat, driven by fear and suspicion to a kind of codependent madness. The ending – involving contaminated trout, and a final Slavic embrace – is bittersweet. It’s a timely tale for Tasmania. As our own summer ends on our own remote island, are we poised to pick new fights or revive old feuds for the long, dark nights ahead…? Read the full article Photo: Matthew Newton |
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