Each year the School organizes a series of public talks on the “north” broadly defined. Building on Trent’s established role as a centre of innovation on northern research (and in combination with the Roberta Bondar Fellowship in Northern Studies) these lectures are a key feature of academic life at Trent.
North at Trent 2024-2025 Lecture Series
The JUSTNORTH Film Project
with Adrian Fisk, Photographer & Filmmaker
October 10, 2024
8:00 pm ET
Bagnani Hall, Traill College
Film screening followed by Q&A with the filmmaker
‘JUSTNORTH’ A Documentary by Alucinari Productions
‘With fraught geopolitical tension and the impact of climate change life in the Arctic is more uncertain than ever. As the European Union looks to the polar north to enable its clean energy transition what do the people of this remote region think? What agency do they have over decisions made for them, ones that all too often are made by external forces with little or no understanding of the Arctic?
Adrian Fisk’s work has featured in the world’s top current-affairs periodicals, from National Geographic and The Economist to Vogue and Vanity Fair. In the noughties he was identified as one of ‘The world’s top photographers’ in the book published by Rotovision. Photographing some of the most iconic counter cultural movements of the 1990’s his work has been exhibited internationally including the 2016 East Wing Biennial at the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Saatchi gallery in 2019 which showcased his series ‘London Acid City’ documenting illegal raves in the 90’s. Having worked in five continents he went onto start Alucinari Productions in 2020 and has recently completed his first feature length documentary in 2024 that explores what needs to be put in place to allow indigenous and local Arctic communities a just, resilient and sustainable existence in the face of dramatic climate change in the polar North. The film, commissioned by the European Commission and JUSTNORTH seeks to influence Arctic policy by both local and regional stakeholders.