The Dark Side of Bright Nights
FILMSZEMLE
International Nature and Environment Film Review
SZEKCIÓ
Nature film
VETÍTÉS
May 21, 2023 1:00 PM
Jacques-Yves Cousteau Barokk színházterem
Készítés éve: 2021
Ország: Germany
Forgatás helyszínei: Germany, Netherlands
Film hossza: 50:0 perc
Eredeti nyelv: German
Rendező: Sander van Iersel, Tim Visser
Producer: Annette Scheurich
Forgalmazó:
Szinopszis:
When light pollution causes the night to disappear, a fundamental clock for life on earth is thrown out of balance. Animals and plants are threatened by artificial light. Worldwide, scientists and experts are researching the impact of light pollution and are working on solutions. As part of a Citizen Science project, people are helping to catch, identify and count aquatic insects in Germany's largest field experiment on light pollution. The film is a journey through the night and takes us along with scientists who try to understand light pollution to restore natural darkness to nature and not least to mankind.
Rendező biográfia:
Biologist (German university degree), cameraman and producer of natural history films. Since 1993, he successfully works as filmer and producer of wildlife documentaries, together with his workmate Thoralf Grospitz. Thoralf Grospitz Certified biologist (German university degree), cameraman and producer of natural history films. In 1993, together with Jens Westphalen, he established Zorillafilm (Grospitz & Westphalen Filmproduktion). Since then he has been successfully filming and producing wildlife documentaries for the national and international market.