Martin Berg
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Encounters Under Polar Lights
A journalist is a strange creature: his or her senses are heightened by the prospect of encountering unusual, uncanny, better—odd expressions of human actions, which may or may not testify to the better side of human nature. He, and at this point, we shall simply agree that the gender inclusive ‘he or she’ should be implied in the use of the old-fashioned ‘he’ in order to make this narrative less cumbersome for the reader, is honed to seek out those oddities that have recently become the most precious currency for the media in the age of commodified sameness. For such a hyper curious journalist, Russia, and especially its outskirts (aptly called the Province – note the singular, as if, for a Russian, ‘province’ is not just a place, a part, or a region, but a country of its own), is a bottomless source of odd and, as this journalist believes, often touchingly human moments. Below I would like to present some of these odd moments taken from my travels to the Russian Far North.
By Martin Berg6 years ago in Wander
Film Fest Without Boundaries
An international film festival of green and social cinematography called The Northern Character: Green Screen takes place in the ending of September. This is the first edition of this event which happened in two neighboring cities—Russian Nickel and Norwegian Kirkenes.
By Martin Berg6 years ago in Geeks