• Home
  • Map
  • Showcase
  • FAQ
  • About
  • Contact
  • App

Arctic Blast

Director: Trenchard-Smith, Brian
Year: 2010
Type: Film
View Film Trailer

Synopsis

Arctic Blast is an eco-disaster thriller in which maverick meteorologist Jack Tate (Michael Shanks) battles a lethal cold front caused by a hole in the Ozone layer over Tasmania. Arctic Blast’s central premise is that cold air from the Mesosphere leaks through a rift in Earth’s atmosphere and forms a killer fog that howls like a monster, snap freezing everything in its path. While his capitalist employer wants to fire magnesium particles into the air to ionize it, Jack advocates “working with nature rather than against it” by using lightning to stimulate the Ozone layer to repair the rift organically. The howling fog is clearly an inaccurate representation of the threat of climate change; however, researchers in the UK are investigating the possibilities of climate change solutions that are not far removed from the mad science proposed in Arctic Blast. According to a recent article in Nature, particle injection is being trialed in the form of a project with the acronym SPICE: Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (Brumfiel, Nature vol. 484, 2012).

Narrative Locations

Australian Defence Force, Hobart and the South, Tasmania  

Temporal setting: 2010s

Shooting Locations

Derwent Barracks, Dowsing Point, Hobart and the South, Tasmania

Derwent Barracks at Dowsing Point was the shooting location for Australian Defense Force scenes, apart from some stock footage courtesy of the Royal Australian Air Force, Queensland.


Beach, Hobart and the South, Tasmania  

Temporal setting: 2010s

Location notes:

The beach identified as being "100 kilometres from Hobart" was shot at Cremorne, Tasmania.

Shooting Locations

Cremorne, Tasmania, Hobart and the South, Tasmania

The beach identified as being "100 kilometres from Hobart" was shot at Cremorne, Tasmania.

Gallery


Constitution Dock, Hobart and the South, Tasmania  

Temporal setting: 2010s

Location notes:

Panic sets in as the fog attacks around Constitution Dock fish punts. The Marine Board at Franklin Wharf also features.

Constitution Dock is renowned as the end-point and party venue for the annual Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race beginning on Boxing Day (December 26) each year. 

Shooting Locations

Gallery


Davey Street, Hobart and the South, Tasmania  

Temporal setting: 2010s

Location notes:

Jack Tate drives down Davey Street talking on his mobile phone and trying to avert imminent disaster: death by killer fog.

Shooting Locations

Davey Street, South Hobart, Hobart and the South, Tasmania


Hobart International Airport, Hobart and the South, Tasmania  

Temporal setting: 2010s

Location notes:

A plane freezes while descending to land at Hobart International Airport.

Shooting Locations

Hobart International Airport, , Tasmania


Jack's home, Sandy Bay, Hobart and the South, Tasmania  

Temporal setting: 2010s

Location notes:

Jack Tate's home is located in Sandy Bay, Hobart.

Shooting Locations

Sandy Bay, Hobart, Hobart and the South, Tasmania


Local school, Hobart and the South, Tasmania  

Temporal setting: 2010s

Location notes:

Jack's daughter's school is unidentified in the film, however, it was shot at St Mary's College at 164 Harrington Street, Hobart.

Shooting Locations

St Mary's College, Hobart, Hobart and the South, Tasmania

Jack's daughter's school is unidentified in the film, however, it was shot at St Mary's College at 164 Harrington Street, Hobart.

Gallery


Sydney Weather Bureau, Sydney region, New South Wales  

Temporal setting: January 2010s

Location notes:

The "Sydney Weather Bureau" depicted in the film is filmed at the Regional Sydney Office of the Bureau of Meteorology at Level 16, 300 Elizabeth Street, Sydney.

Shooting Locations

Menzies Research Institute, Hobart, Hobart and the South, Tasmania

The exterior of the "Sydney Weather Bureau" and Jack's boss's office was filmed at 17 Liverpool Street, Hobart, where a distinctive University of Tasmania building with a corner entrance at Royal Hobart Hospital called the Menzies Research Centre.


Theatre Royal Hotel, Hobart and the South, Tasmania  

Temporal setting: 2010s

Location notes:

The Theatre Royal Hotel is Jack Tate's local pub, where he gets a "pep talk" from a friendly barmaid and tries to convince the Tasmanian Emergency Response team to initiate disaster warnings.

The Theatre Royal Hotel is one of Australia's oldest operating hotels, having opened in 1834. The hotel is open for lunch and dinner and has on-site accommodation. It is located next door to Australia's oldest operating theatre, the Theatre Royal.

Shooting Locations

Theatre, Hobart and the South, Tasmania

The Theatre Royal Hobart is located at 31 Campbell Street, Hobart.

Gallery




Content


Synopsis
Narrative Locations
Map

Related Texts



Print Page
Expand and Print All
Print Map

Contribute information to this Narrative
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Copyright Policy
  • Privacy Policy
     
Copyright © 2012 Cultural Atlas Australia. University of Queensland. All rights reserved.