This is Moose-See’s television.
A majestic herjustment of Alces is captivating millions worldwide thanks to the live broadcast of Sweden, the great migration of alces.
Nickname “reality TV at its best”, the sublime transmission returned on April 15, a full week before, after an unusually warm spring increased the annual walk of the largest terrestrial mammals in the country.
The program, known locally as “The Stora älgvandringen”, has been described as hypnotic, meditative and even a bit addictive.
With more than 30 cameras that capture uninterrupted images of wildlife rivers and snow forests, the 24/7 stream offers spectators all the open air drama, at a glacial rhythm.
“There are many classes on,” said producer Stefan Edlund to the Swedish public broadcaster SVT. “They are waiting for us. We had to adjust. But it should be fine.”
He and a team of 15 people had already put 20,000 meters cable and placed the cameras, with night vision, through the remote region of the high coast of Sweden.
And they did just in time for the moment ready for the House of Alce.
Last year, almost 9 million tuned, and staunch fans are not stop seeing. Ulla Malmgren, 62, said it is supplied with coffee and precooked meals so that she does not lose a second.
“Sleeping? Forget it. I don’t sleep,” he said in an interview with the Swedish SVT, according to The Guardian.
Another spectator, William Garp Liljafors, 20, admitted that the transmission is in Moose-Watch 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
“I feel relaxed, but at the same time I say:” Oh, there is an alce. Oh, what if there is an alce? I can’t go to the bathroom! “Hello, they told journalists.
The concept may sound absurd in the era of the sections of attention, but media scholars say that the slow rhythm is exactly the point.
“It becomes, in a strange, exciting way, because nothing catastrophic is happening, nothing spectacular is happening,” said Annette Hill, a media and communications professor at the Jönköping University in Sweden.
“But something very beautiful is happening at that time minute by minute.”
The program is part of a broader “slow TV”, popular in Scandinavia, which includes 18 hours of uphill salmon swimming, 12 hours of burning of firewood and a sea trip of 134 hours.
Unlike television with script, slow television develops in real time, without narration, without music and without cut.
“Just when we accept that television should be this accelerated, busy, intense, in your face?” Aspen Espen Ytrenberg, professor of media studies at the University of Oslo.
“But at some point, that became the standard,” Ytreberg told CBS.
Exception here. The drama of the alces occasionally occurs. The ångerman river, which the Alce must cross to reach summer pastures, can be treacherous.
SVT even sends notifications to the spectators when the first elice enters the frame and maintains a live counter of how many do it. Last year: 87.
The spectators can also expect more wildlife cameos, from Reinder and otter to zapercatatic elusive.
The program’s Facebook fans group has been global to more than 78,000 members, many of whom treat migration such as the Serenity Super Bowl.
For those who want to exchange the screen time for the real, Sweden sacrifices the adventures ranging from zoological city and wild cabins to safaris with ecological certification where you can track animals in their habitat.
But if you are caught in your desk, only open a browser and wallpaper in the slow and snowy stillness of a Nordic forest. Somewhere, an Alce is about to make your day.
You can transmit the great migration of Alces for free on SVTPLAY.
The best visualization hours: dawn and dusk (Swedish time).