On a 7 week artists' residency in the Summer of 2006 in Kemijarvi, Lapland, Finland, Turek examined the romantic notion of the landscape, which is, of course entirely human-managed. Man-made structures such as roads, electricity & telephone lines cut corridors onto & into nature, replacing it with the means of transport, communication and, effectively power. These are the structures that feed the machine that makes the life that we live comfortable but through familiarity is seldom noticed.

Returning to Kemijarvi during the Winter of 2006 for 3 weeks, he filmed extensively during the few hours of daylight. Travelling on a regular bus between the cities of Rovaniemi & Kemijarvi, following the Arctic Circle, this roadmovie documents a landscape which conjures a feeling of isolation, loneliness and beauty.

Harald Turek is based in Scotland & Ireland.