• Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan: Nocturnes, 2024

  • Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan: Nocturnes, 2024

  • Stan Brakhage: Mothlight, 1963


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Nocturnes

Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan
India, United States, 2024

In Conversation

  • Patrick Gonzalez

    Patrick Gonzalez is a climate change scientist, forest ecologist, and Associate Adjunct Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. He previously served as Principal Climate Change Scientist of the US National Park Service.

  • Sugata Ray

    Sugata Ray is Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art and Architecture in the Departments of History of Art and South and Southeast Asian Studies, and Faculty Director of the Climate Change Initiative at the Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley.

  • Jason Spingarn-Koff

    Jason Spingarn-Koff is a Professor of Journalism and Knight Chair of Climate Journalism at UC Berkeley.

awards

Winner of a Special Jury Award for Craft at the Sundance Film Festival

In the verdant, misty Eastern Himalayas—the India–Bhutan border, a biodiversity hotspot—ecologist Mansi Mungee pairs up with Gendan “Bicki” Marphew, from the Indigenous Bugun community, for a quantitative study on the local population of hawk moths. As the team sets up screens at varying altitudes and projects light onto those screens to attract these essential members of the food chain, Nocturnes foregrounds the physical labor and particular brand of patience required for scientific research. The immersive soundscape and textures of the lush landscape are transporting, yet the urgency of the endeavor is never far out of mind. 

Jeff Griffith-Perham
FILM DETAILS 
Cinematographer
  • Satya Rai Nagpaul
Language
  • Hindi
  • English
  • Bugun
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 83 mins
Source
  • Grasshopper Film
Preceded By

Mothlight

United States, 1963

Stan Brakhage sandwiched dried flora and fauna—including moth wings—between strips of clear 16mm editing tape to reanimate the dead. “Mothlight is pure cinema” (J. Hoberman, Artforum).

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • Color
  • 16mm
  • Silent
  • 4 mins
source
  • BAMPFA
permission
  • Marilyn Brakhage

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