Ashes and Snow

by Gregory Colbert

Overview

full credits:
written, directed, and produced by Gregory Colbert
cinematographers
Gregory Colbert, Philippe Vene, Koji Nakemura, Acacio Almeido, Yorgos Arvanitis
narrators
Laurence Fishburne (English) Ken Watanabe (Japanese)
editor
Pietro Scalia
music
Michael Brook, Patrick Cassidy, David Darling, Robert Een, Lukas Foss, Djivan Gasparyan, Lisa Gerrard, Heiner Goebbels, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Temple of Sound, Cantor Samuel Vigoda
post production supervisor
Alessandra Pasquino
music supervisors
Peter Afterman, Margaret Yen
score producer
Michael Brook
music editor
Richard Henderson
additional editor
Elisa Bonora
assistant editors
Shawn Mitchell, Neil Jariwala
apprentice editor
Sean Martin
colorist
Clark Muller
special thanks
Michael Ostin, Nile Rodgers, Andy Uterano, Francis Pennington
animals
Asian elephants, sperm whales, humpback whales, royal eagles, manatees, peregrine falcons, gyr falcons, elands, baboons, cheetahs, meerkats, african wild dogs, pilot whales, harris hawks, sacred ibis, antigone cranes, caracals

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933632629
Publisher:	Two Rivers Distribution
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Edition description:	Multilingu
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)

About the Author

Written, directed, produced, and filmed by Gregory Colbert. Born in Toronto, Canada, in 1960, Colbert began his career in Paris in 1983 where he began making documentary films on social issues. Filmmaking led to fine arts photography. His first exhibition, Timewaves, opened in 1992 at the Museum of Elysée in Switzerland. For the next ten years, Colbert did not show films or exhibit his art to the public. During this time, he completed extensive underwater work in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and traveled to such places as India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Dominica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tonga, Namibia, and Antarctica to film and photograph wondrous interactions between human beings and animals. Since 1992, he has launched more than sixty such expeditions. In 2002, Colbert presented the culmination of his singular work, Ashes and Snow, at the Arsenale in Venice, Italy, a twelfth-century 125,000-square-foot shipyard. It was the largest solo exhibition ever mounted in Italy. In spring 2005 the show opened in New York City in the first-ever Nomadic Museum. Ashes and Snow has since migrated in the Nomadic Museum to world capitals on four continents.

Edited by two-time Oscar-winner Pietro Scalia; narrated by actors Laurence Fishburne (English) and Ken Watanabe (Japanese). Musical collaborators include Michael Brook, David Darling, Heiner Goebbels, Lisa Gerrard, Lukas Foss, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Djivan Gasparyan.

Editorial Reviews

The power of the images comes less from their formal beauty than from the way they envelop the viewer in their mood…They are simply windows to a world in which silence and patience govern time.—New York Times

The animals and the people seem to move in a cosmic dance filled with rhythmic and visual beauty that breaks out of the mundane world of classifications, of us and them, and into the sublime.—Camera Arts

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