White Falcon, White Wolf Filmmaker Interviews: Jonny Keeling,
Director  Interview with Jonny Keeling, Director on location
with wolves, musk oxen, hares and skuas  IRENE: Wolf territory
can stretch hundreds of square miles. Did this make filming
difficult for you?  JONNY KEELING: It was hard. It’s so vast,
you can drive for hours. It’s always hard to imagine — all the
sea ice is still frozen. You have this big brown landscape
surrounded by ice. The brown landscape gets baked by the sun,
like a plowed field, and you have to drive across bumps,
apparently where moisture in the soil freezes.  With our Quad
Bike (four-wheel motorbike) you can’t cross a massive river. The
wolves can do it, but with the bike you can’t, so you’re looking
for a place to cross, but by the time you find a way the wolves
are gone. They have a lope, a trotting walk… And they would
disappear for maybe five days, hunting, and they’d come back to
the den, but you can’t follow.  A few times I tried to cross the
river, and it would totally sw