Follow the eco-acoustic composer David Monacchi on his quest to record pure continuous 24-hour 3D soundscapes in the area with the world’s highest biodiversity in Ecuador’s remote primary forests. A unique listening experience of fragments of the disappearing sonic heritage of millions of years of evolution.
Concept and writer | David Monacchi
Director | Nika Šaravanja & Alessandro d’Emilia
Cinematographer | Alessandro d’Emilia
Editor | Otis Buri
3D Soundscapes and spectrograms | David Monacchi
Sound design | David Monacchi & Anthony Di Furia
Music | Corrado Fantoni & David Monacchi
Color grading | Alessandro d’Emilia
Graphics | Egle Kirdulyte
Soundtrack produced by | Fragments of Extinction
Green Film Festival – Seoul
Cinemambiente – Torino AWARD
Durban International Film Festival – Durban AWARD
Iran International Film Festival – Teheran
DokuFest – Prizren
Cervino Cinemountain – Aosta
Global Eco Film Festival – Zurich
Innsbruck Nature Film Festival – Innsbruck AWARD
Bifed – Istanbul AWARD
Inconvenient Films – Vilnius
Imagine Science Film Festival – New York (North America premiere)
Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival – Toronto
CineEco – Serra da Estrela AWARD
Jihlava IFF – Prague
Cinema Planeta – Mexico
Mountain International Film Festival – Graz
Signes de Nuit – Paris AWARD
InScience Dutch International Film Festival – Nijmegen
Fricine Socioenvironmental Film Festival – Rio De Janeiro
International Human Rights Film Festival – Nurnberg
Green Film Network Award (Dusk Chorus II bally best film globally in 2017)