Recent footage of melting polar ice in Greenland as shown in the global mass media has represented the country as both the ground zero of the climate crisis and a vast expanse for resource exploitation. The film Aasivissuit aims to provide a different view, showing instead the landscape itself and its inhabitants, focusing on people’s discussions about climate change and how they adapt in their complex relationship with the changing environment. 

The film follows two park rangers exploring the Greenlandic landscape. They exchange new and old knowledge of the land in their conversations. They talk about how ancient fertile sediment from Greenland is used to nurture exploited soil elsewhere and how microbes have found a way to deal with pollution. Drawing attention to the non-human presence within the landscape, the camera occasionally adopts the perspective of a fly or a raven, or dives into one of the holes in the melting ice cap where toxic metals collect. The film investigates how we can experience and perhaps understand these different perspectives.