The Unknown Companion

[John Tynes]

>"360: The following lines were stimulated by the account of one of the
>Antarctic expeditions (I forget which, but I think one of Shackleton's):
>it was related that the party of explorers, at the extremity of their
>strength, had the constant delusion that there was _one more member_ than
>could actually be counted."
>
>Eliot, "Notes on The Waste Land"

Another film suggestion: THE FORBIDDEN QUEST. It's a Norwegian 
faux-documentary, loosely adapted from Poe's "Narrative of Arthur Gordyn 
Pym." The above bit from Eliot is worked in there, too; the credits cite 
"The Waste Land" as one of the sources, in fact.

The "documentary" is a long interview with an aged survivor of a doomed 
Antarctic expedition from the turn of the century. He presents the 
film-makers with a cache of film shot with an early motion-picture camera 
taken on the expedition, so his interview is played over lots of vintage, 
damaged footage of a disastrous and supernatural-tinged journey.

The film is from 1993, and in English. It's one seriously creepy piece of 
work.


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