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15 min. 2024

synopsis:
A film about people who are trying really hard to listen, and people who are hardly listening.

credits:
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ERIC MACEY AND RANKIN RENWICK

COLOR AND SOUND DESIGN
ERIC MACEY

FILM AND VIDEO CINEMATOGRAPHY:
RANKIN RENWICK

FILM LAB
THE NEGATIVE SPACE

ARCHIVAL 16MM FOOTAGE:
BASEMENT FILMS ARCHIVE
AT THE BASEMENT FILMS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

CHIMP FOOTAGE:
WILD SCIENCE: COMMUNICATING WITH ANIMALS

GREAT APES:
FACT VS. FANTASY

DOLPHIN FOOTAGE:
WONDER OF DOLPHINS BY MICHAEL WEISE

FILM TRANSFER:
PRELINGER ARCHIVES

BUILT HIDDEN SOUNDSCAPE RECORDED AND COMPOSED BY:
LISA SCHONBERG
MULTISPECIES (ANTS) EXCERPT BY:
BLAIRE STAPP
WITH FOOTAGE FROM PATRICIA GOUVEA
MUSIC BY SECRET DRUM BAND
INSECTS AND MUSIC: LISA SCHONBERG
INTERVIEW EXCERPT WITH BARRETT KLEIN

THE MIRACLE WORKER EXCERPT
BY ARTHUR PENN

WOMAN WITH CHIMP PAINTING:
KATIE WISDOM WEINSTEIN

RANKIN AND DAMEK HEAD BANGING FILMED BY:
MIA LOR HOULBERG

RADIO GOAT AND MYCOLOGY ECOACOUSTICS PAINTINGS BY:
LORI DAMIANO

PLAYING MUSIC WITH ANIMALS:
THE INTERSPECIES COMMUNICATION OF JIM NOLLMAN WITH 300 TURKEYS, 12 WOLVES AND 20 ORCAS

FONT COMMUNARD BY:
ROGER PEET/JUST SEEDS

LUNA WHALE LIGHT SCULPTURE BY MK ILLUMINATION

SPERM WHALES CLICKING YOU INSIDE OUT
JAMES NESTOR AT THE INTERVAL/LONG NOW FOUNDATION

CAN WE LEARN TO TALK TO SPERM WHALES ?
DAVID GRUBER PROJECT CETI TED TALK

MERMAID: WEEKIWACHEE STATE PARK, FLORIDA

WHALE WHISPERING:MICHAELA HARRISON

PEIXE PESCADOR FILMED MICHAELA HARRISON SINGING TO THE WHALES

CREATED WITH HELP FROM
FORD FAMILY FOUNDATION
OREGON ARTS COMMISSION
REGIONAL ARTS AND CULTURE COUNCIL