Nocturnes

🎟️ Online tickets here! ☀️ Sundance 2024 ✈️ World Cinema 📜 Documentary (2024)"Which bird is this?" "I have no idea about birds.... I tried very hard to identify birds. But I couldn't." "Me neither." "Then I joined you all and started working with moths." "That's…

universzero

Research as meditation. Moths’ beating wings as measured breaths. Downpour as a hum. Cataloguing as freeing one’s thoughts from the mind. Looking over the data as a means to reflect on our role in the greater whole. Nocturnes captures the hypnotic rhythms of field study and…

claira curtis

My cat LOVED this

K

I imagine the impact of this doc was greater in a theater with surround sound, but I am still impressed at this doc's commitment to such a meditative approach to the material and its asmr style visuals and sounds. The ending, like most ecological docs these days, was very…

Marya E. Gates

Rarely do you see people talking so passionately about moths, the variety of forms and colors they come in and how a natural habitat play into their sizes. Premiered at the esteemed Sundance Film Festival, this documentary does a decent job at explaining the purpose of the…

Manoj Panicker

Skinamarink for moths

ghostyluke

MOST NATURE DOCS filmed in elephant country are about elephants. Not so Nocturnes, an ethereal closeup of moths in the Eastern Himalayas. Set up a brightly lit screen in these dense forests at night and you’d repel elephants but attract moths by the thousands. Ramana…

Carl Russo

Beautiful, meditative, immersive, and sobering. I’m a sucker for the butterflies, moths, and a little bit of research so this experience is something I couldn’t take my eyes away from. The quality of work Anupama and Anirban put into this can be felt through every gentle…

Des

I'm kind of torn on this one because although I got that it was about the meditative nature of research, there were a lot of nothing shots that felt like b roll and didn't really convey the gorgeous location. They don't explain which moth is a hawk moth or give extreme…

sophie :^)