OUTPOST zooms in on the stark reality of an isolated society of miners in Barentsburg, Russia&apos;s northernmost settlement, located in Norway&apos;s Svalbard archipelago. At the beginning of the 20th-century coal became the black gold of ...

Wim Catrysse

Outpost

OUTPOST zooms in on the stark reality of an isolated society of miners in Barentsburg, Russia's northernmost settlement, located in Norway's Svalbard archipelago. At the beginning of the 20th-century coal became the black gold of the north, but given the more recent crash of coal prices, Moscow is forced to subsidize the mining operation to maintain a strategic geopolitical foothold in this Arctic region. Although Catrysse strays away from explicit statements on the larger political context, the viewer cannot but notice a state of denial. Outpost gives a gloomy prospect to a faltering industrial model that is facing its own exhaustion.

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