The Truman Show of the Alci: millions to look at their slow migration between the woods

What is trying to stay in front of a screen a Look at the alci that guise a river during their spring migration? Looking at them when it is good, because for the most part of the time the shot is fixed on the placid waters of a large river, on an apparently uninhabited islet, on the expanse of trunks of the tall trees of a forest. Maybe you can see the swans, ducks or other birds that are found in the frame. But they are not the protagonists. In any case, the question remains: what do you feel? We should ask the millions of spectators who are following the special Slow TV proposed by the Swedish broadcaster SVTwhose cameras placed in some strategic points along the path taken by large ruminants. Millions, not so much to say. And also a fans.

So much that someone has even taken free time from work in order to attend the program without distractions. Others explained to the media that they had made of coffee and pretzels, with the prospect of getting comfortable and simply being watching. A bit like in Truman Show Of Peter Weirthe film of the nineties with Jim Carrey who anticipated that television voyeurism mechanism that we would then all experience a few years later, in reality, with programs such as Big Brother And the like. Keep your gaze always focused on the lives of others. With the difference that in the reality show of the reindeer it really does not seem to happen much, especially at certain times of the day. But also nothing, entrusted to the magical environment of those latitudes, at some point becomes hypnotic.

The broadcaster’s website takes a huge window in the center always open on these wild views of the Junsele surroundings, in the County of Västernorland, along the course of the ångerman river. The first days the webcams – there are about thirty, in different positions, all connected to a control room always operational and managed by a staff of about fifteen people – only images of an unspoiled nature returned. Then the first animals started to be seen. The word of mouth on social networks He immediately conveyed a large number of people towards the platform. And migration immediately became media phenomenon. It is not the first time, moreover. The initiative has been repeated since 2019: the first year had been about a million spectators, last year they went up to nine. This year there will probably be many more.

The banks of the river now appear almost snowy. And in ice water there is no more, if not in some loops only touched by currents. The higher average temperatures They anticipated the migration, taking a little surprise. The opening of the Live chat of spectators Alongside the videoplayer, to say, it is expected only from 8 on Sunday morning. But the huge fans did not wait and their enthusiastic comments poured them on the Facebook page of the TV, which every day also tries to put together a small summary article. Also reporting the opinions of the fans. Like this: «This morning I did not dare to look away even for a moment In order not to miss only one alce. I overturned the cup of tea in my throat when suddenly I saw all those animals arrive ». This is the moment that we reproduce in the first image, what the TV calls « the first swimming of the year particularly appreciated ».

If you are a lovers of the outdoor and wild nature you will also find exciting images without animals, especially at dawn and sunset (but the transmissions continue 24 hours a day, entrusted at night to shooting infrared). However, seeing the same places traveled by the alci is something unique. Even if they are in the right place and we, behind the monitor, in the wrong one. Try to imagine to be on the spot. But in reality it is just like that: that is their place, ours is responsible for us. But if you want to take a discreet look at theirs, You can try clicking here. Do it, it will be worth it.