a blue moment is a 17-minute immersive multimedia (film, spatial sound, poetry, dance) installation that traces a journey through an Arctic Polar Night – moving from disorienting darkness into the 'blue moment': that brief spell when the sun lingers just below the horizon, and what has been held or lost by the Polar Night is quietly revealed.

From 2016-2025, director Alyssa Martens embedded herself across high-Arctic regions, including Svalbard, Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Canada, attending the largest annual gathering of Arctic scientists and consulting subject specialists to uncover the unravelling story of an Arctic facing ecological loss and damage. a blue moment is a translation of Martens’ research into an immersive and poetic narrative, captured by cinematographer Max Machado within Iceland’s first UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, the Snæfellsnes Peninsula. Under the art and movement direction of Damian Siqueiros, dancers Íris Ásmundar, Sally Cowdin and Alejandro Bencomo embody the experiences of soil, water, and sky—interpreting these elemental forces in intimate ways. The enveloping, sonic atmosphere was composed by Bernardo Alvarado Rojas and features poetic voice-overs by Rachel August, Liv Elísabet, and Alyssa Martens.

The immersive short film accompanies a collection of poems and photos, which is forthcoming in publication under the same title in 2026.

To learn more about the socioecological and regenerative processes we followed to create this work, visit the project’s case study.