A woman goes to get her nails painted, the world around her is flooding and she begins to leak. A symbolic and experimental take on vanity, fluids and climate denial.
Set on a rugged Arctic island where the sun sinks below the horizon for two months every winter, the film uses strikingly artistic imagery to investigate our relationship to the cycles of nature. It points an explorative lens at a remote island community, whose inhabitants know exactly at what place, on what day, and at what time they can see the sun again for the first time after the darkness of the polar night.
A major cyberattack in the wake of the Ukrainian war left Norway's Arctic Islands without means to communicate. On Air explores the vital role that radio amateurs play in keeping our backup communication systems alive. Set against a striking arctic backdrop, the film reflects on society's digital vulnerabilities and the enduring importance of analog technology.
