Dead Reckoning is referred to as a continual calculation that determines the position, orientation and velocity of a moving object.
Contemporary artist and filmmaker Rori Knudtson is currently in production for her new film
Dead Reckoning. Appropriate, as its true definition is defined by a navigational calculation searching for position, orientation and velocity of a moving object.
Rori is fast moving ever closer to her completion goal as she is exploring the outermost reaches of the North Pole. Sharing in her tireless pursuit, I caught up with her to share the following passage.
3PM and the long flights from Denver to Longyearbyen provides a glimpse of the frozen landscape. A precursor for what’s to come in the filmmaking journey to complete
Dead Reckoning celebrating Norway’s northern closest region to the North Pole.
(Above, Reykjavik to Oslo).
North Pole ice is a wonderful metaphor for fine artist Rori Knudtson as she continues the next important phase of filmmaking for her Norwegian/American film
Dead Reckoning.
Ice is often employed by the science fiction movie genre and its association with unexplained territory, non-conducive for human life, and relationship to death before rebirth. Fitting, as daylight in the Svalbard region of Norway is finite. Darkness outperforms the light, adding to the drama of the landscape.
Though the light is soon to return, the minutes will increase each day by 10 to 20 minutes. Rori presses on, to capture the emotion, or lack thereof within these extreme conditions.
Rori Knudtson will not face the elements alone, and on her way to the isolated region of Ny Ålesund with cinematographer
Lucian Muntean where less than 14 inhabitants remain during the winter months.
Dead Reckoning is now in the throws of below 0 weather and the psychological effects of life without light. Act two of this journey to follow soon.
Dead Reckoning, a new documentary project generously funded by the
Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For additional information about Dead Reckoning please read more here,
Dead Reckoning by
Rori Knudtson and
Eye of the Storm.
(Stay tuned for the Sci-Fi feature SPIRE).
