Built in the shadow of a black pyramid-like mountain in the far Arctic, Pyramiden is a now-deserted mining town and Soviet socialist experiment on the archipelago of Svalbard. First populated in the 1920s, Pymariden reached its peak of a thousand residents in the mid-1980s. A lack of profitability and a tragic local plane crash contributed to the town’s demise, with residents abandoning their homes mere months after the last mine had closed in 1998. Spanish directors Guille Cascante and Santi Baró of travel collective Goroka set sail to meet Kirill Shepelev, a solitary Moscow native who protects the ghost town’s cultural relics while nature continues to reclaim the land.