Arctic Alchemy

2025 | Coast Film & Music Festival

Duration: 29 min

Synopisis

Arctic Alchemy follows renowned Alaskan adventurer and climate scientist Roman Dial on a research expedition to find the source of a mysterious phenomenon poisoning watersheds.  Along the journey, Roman reckons with fatherhood, personal tragedy, and the power of wilderness to both break us and bring us alive.

Featured at Coast Film & Music Festival 2025

Production Team

Colin Arisman: Colin is a homesteader, harvester and documentary director, who lives with his wife and creative partner Elsa in Alaska. His visual storytelling documents human connections to the natural world, with a focus on outdoor recreation, ecology, and conservation. Colin’s films have received accolades including “Best Short Film” at Banff Mountain Film Festival and numerous Vimeo Staff Picks. He is the founder of Wild Confluence Media, a documentary production company that amplifies grassroots activism through impact storytelling. 

Zeppelin Zeerip: Film director. Conservationist. Pot belly pig wrangler. Geodesic dome off-grid livin’ but don’t dare call him a hippie. Zeppelin would prefer to be in the mountains riding his snowboard or chasing elk, and though he prides himself on a Midwest work ethic, he spends more time behind a computer than with a shovel in his hand. He’ll tell you nothing scares him but will still walk backwards up the stairs if the lights are turned off in the basement. He claims to be relaxed, yet is perpetually anxious about the state of the world and makes films in an effort to contribute something to the conversation.