IPICS 2026 Films

Please enjoy some wonderful films made by or about our community below!

Thank you to all who submitted films! We had a large number of submissions and were unfortunately unable to show all at the meeting in person. Many thanks however to those who have allowed their films to be shared here. 

Fjord Girls

Alissa Choi

A group of eight high school girls spend a week in Alaska's Kenai Fjords National Park learning about glaciers, art, and themselves. Throughout Girls* in Icy Fjords, they not only develop and grow as scientists but also gain confidence in their outdoors skills. LINK

She Measures the Earth

Ching Yu

She Measures the Earth follows four women scientists in Canada, Alison Criscitiello, Jocelyn Hirose, Isobel Phoebus, and Chimira Andres, as they reshape who belongs to science. LINK

Manual drilling at the Grigoriev ice cap, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan

László Palcsu

Manual drilling down to 35.7 m to study the natural level and variation of cosmogenic tritium in precipitation. LINK

RAICA Canisteo Peninsula, West Antarctica 2 x 150 Meter Ice Core Drilling

RAICA Project Team, Peter Neff

Fieldwork footage, RAICA project LINK 

Combatant Col Ice Core Project - Summer 2023, 219 meters

Peter Neff

Fieldwork footage of collecting the Combatant Col Ice Core, Mt. Waddington, BC, Canada summer 2023 LINK

Antarctic blue ice FROID reconnaissance survey

FROID project, Etienne Legrain 

Reconnaissance mission in blue ice areas of the Sor Rondane Mountains during austral summer 24-25 of the FROID project. LINK

Third Dome Fuji Deep Drilling

Third Dome Fuji Project

Introducing our deep drilling operation and also life in drill camp and during traverse. LINK

Japanese Inland Traverse by Drone (2024-2025 season)

DF3 drilling team, Ryo Inoue

This film captures the current style of Japanese inland traverse in Antarctica. All footage was filmed by drone during the traverse from November 2024 to January 2025. LINK

Beyond the Ice: Field Operations and Research within the Beyond EPICA Project

Beyond EPICA Team

Over five field seasons, the team worked for two months during each Antarctic summer in average temperatures of -35°C, driven by one ambitious goal: drilling deep into the Antarctic ice sheet. Through raw field footage and behind-the-scenes moments, witness how researchers successfully retrieved ancient ice to help predict the future of our planet. LINK

The Impossible Man Trailer

Lars Ostenfeld LINK

The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice

Kathy Kasic

A covert Cold War-era military camp in Greenland unearthed 400,000-year-old plant remains from deep under the ice sheet – stunning evidence the region was once ice-free. The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice is an Emmy award-winning documentary about scientists who apply cutting-edge science to a forgotten core and the implications for sea level rise and our socio-economic future.

While we can’t share the full film here, a trailer is available: LINK