EXTINCTION
EXTINCTION
EXTINCTION
EXTINCTION
Experience the sound of the ecosystem with the highest biodiversity on Earth
through headphones
DUSK CHORUS
Based on Fragments of Extinction
(2017)
Duration: 62 min.
Written and narrated by David Monacchi
Directors: Nika Šaravanja, Alessandro D’Emilia
Cinematography: Alessandro D’Emilia
Editing: Otis Buri
A co-production ZeLIG – Fragments of Extinction
Format: full HD
Sound: 5.1 dolby surround sound from 3D research field recordings
An exploration through remote primary equatorial forests, the project Fragments of Extinction uses sound as a medium to reflect on the current global extinction crisis. The film portrays the fieldwork of eco-acoustics researcher and project’s founder David Monacchi, who is on a quest to record 24-hour 3-dimensional sonic portraits in the area with the assessed highest biodiversity on Earth. Through beautiful and immersive cinematography and directing, Alessandro D’Emilia and Nika Saravanja follow the progress of this urgent project, incorporating Monacchi’s lecture footage, which manages to accessibly impart the complexity of the issues at hand. During the film the focus shifts from incredible images to a spectacular surround listening experience. It’s as if the viewers themselves are in the middle of the rainforest – they hear insects, birds, amphibians, mammals and even trees in a three-dimensional polyphony of nature. The result is a careful balance between Monacchi’s scientific yet deeply philosophical relationship with the environment and the urgent plight of communities and creatures that are facing the impact of habitat loss, invasive industry and climate change. Dusk Chorus (2017) is an enduring contemplation and poetic journey on some of the often-overlooked aspects that make an ecosystem diverse, unique, and fragile.
Official selections and Awards:
- Visions du Reèl – Nyon (International premiere)
- Green Film Festival – Seoul
- Cinemambiente – Torino AWARD – Best Italian Documentary
- Durban International Film Festival – Durban AWARD – Best International Documentary
- Iran International Film Festival – Teheran
- DokuFest – Prizren
- Global Eco Film Festival – Zurich
- Innsbruck Nature Film Festival – Innsbruck AWARD – Best International Documentary
- Bifed – Istanbul AWARD – Best International Doc (student jury)
- Cervino Cinemountain – Aosta
- Imagine Science Film Festival – New York (North America premiere)
- Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival – Toronto
- CineEco – Serra da Estrela AWARD – Best International Documentary
- Jihlava IFF – Prague
- Cinema Planeta – Mexico
- Jihlava International documentary Film Festival – Prague
- Inconvenient Films Film Festival – Vilnius
- Mountain International Film Festival – Graz
- InScience Dutch International Film Festival – Nijmegen AWARD – Best International Documentary
- Fricine Socioenvironmental Film Festival – Rio De Janeiro
- International Human Rights Film Festival – Nurnberg
- Environmental Film Festival – Washington
- Signes de Nuit – Paris AWARD – Best International Documentary
- Festival of Tolerance – Zagreb
- Signes de Nuit – Berlin
- Green Film Festival UEA – Norwick UK
- International Documentary Film Festival Beldocs – Belgrad
- Green Image Film Festival – Tokyo AWARD – Green Image award
- International Wildlife Film Festival – Montana
- Ecozine Film Festival – Zaragoza AWARD – Best International Film
- Festival International de Cinema e Video Ambiental – Brazil AWARD – Best International Film
- Trento film Festival – Trento
- Signes de Nuit – Bangkok Special Mention – International Documentaries
- Science Fiction Film Festival – Trieste
- Savonlinna International Film Festival – Finland
- International Film Festival Ebesrwalde – Berlin
- Green Film Festival – San Francisco
- International Science Film Festival – Saint Petersburg AWARD – Jury Prize
- Bridge Film Festival – Verona AWARD – Jury Prize
- Fuorinorma – Roma
- European Academy of Science Film – Vienna AWARD – Best European Science Film 2017-2018
For the Green Film Network Award (awarded to the best film among winners in n. 33 International Environmental Film Festivals) Dusk Chorus positioned as Second Best Documentary 2017 on a global scale.