Camp Century

‘Camp Century’ is a live documentary, created in Virtual Reality and live-streamed, about the strange story of Camp Century, a Cold War research base in Greenland. Camp Century was a military research base with its own nuclear power plant, built deep under the ice of Greenland. The camp was operational from 1959 to 1967 and consisted of 21 tunnels, in total three kilometers long, housing over 100 people. And much of the research conducted at Camp Century remains in use today. Camp Century was abandoned and has been swallowed by the ice decades ago. But as the polar ice melts due to climate change this legacy of the Cold War is coming back to the surface, threatening to reveal its secrets and bringing with it the thorny question of who should be dealing with the nuclear and human waste it generated. Filmed inside of a virtual version of ‘Camp Century’, we will meet people who lived there then or are knowledgeable about Camp Century today – while they explore the base as avatars.