Best Feature Film: THE NIGHT VISITORS with
CREATURES OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE and WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
7:30 PM
The Hollywood Theatre
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Come learn about—and celebrate—some of the wonderful and mysterious creatures with whom we are fortunate to share this strange and beautiful world.
This program includes our 2024 Best Feature Film Award winner, THE NIGHT VISITORS. (Total running time: 91 minutes)
A virtual conversation with director Michael Gitlin (THE NIGHT VISITORS) follows.
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Winner: Best Feature Film
THE NIGHT VISITORS
72 minutes | 2023 | USA
Director: Michael Gitlin
The Night Visitors is a hauntingly beautiful movie about moths. In large and small fragments, looking both inward and out, through a critical lens that is by turns social and personal, the film closely examines these underknown creatures. While the film is interested in moths as organisms, with fascinating life histories, staggering biodiversity, and a functional importance as indicators of climate change and habitat degradation, its engagement with them is not primarily scientific. Instead, the film looks at moths as aesthetic beings and as carriers of meaning, aiming for a deep encounter with the beauty and incommensurability of the profoundly other.
CREATURES OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE
18 minutes | 2023 | UK
Director: Hannah Alexander
Learn about the fascinating lives and abilities of one of nature's most magical creatures, the cuttlefish. Discover how they use their colour changing and shape shifting abilities to survive and thrive in the open ocean.
WHAT’S FOR DINNER?
1 minute | 2023 | USA
Director: Clemencia Macias
A striped shore crab enjoys a meal.
