Volcan Sangay
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SANGAY
17 mins, Super 8, 1988
BBC 2's Wideworld primetime adventure series — Ecuador's
Andes. Extreme working conditions climbing up an active volcano
erupting red hot lava and flying rock
Producer/Director and Cameraman. |
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Royal
Geographic Society
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Winner
of the BBC and Royal Geographic Society Mick Burke Award for
new film-makers
“A yarn of the kind that keeps children from play and
old men from the fire” — Nancy Banks-Smith, Guardian |
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Sangay
was my first film and quite literally a baptism of fire.
Filmed in Ecuador on super-8 cameras as part of the BBC's Mick
Burke Award, a competition for amateur adventure film-makers,
I found myself confronted by a very active volcano, failing
equipment, and a hungry, grumpy expedition of which I was part.
The constant eruptions (every 20 minutes), red hot lava and
flying boulders slowed down our progress and one by one the
team turned back leaving just myself and the leader/recordist
to try for the summit at 5,200 metres.
We filmed ourselves to within 200 metres of the final craters
before we too admitted defeat. |
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Looking
across at a ball of lightning |
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Night eruptions
and star tracks (long exposure) |
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