The Dryden will screen Last Whispers (Lena Herzog, U.S. 2016, 46 min., DCP). with an introduction by filmmaker Lena Herzog.

Last Whispers is an elegy about the mass extinction of languages. Multimedia artist Lena Herzog has collected samples of extinct and endangered idioms. Both spoken and sung, the historical recordings (speech, recitatives, incantations, songs, and ritual chants) are punctuated by the sound of digitally rendered gravitational waves of collapsing stars and supernovae. This oratorio is accompanied by a sequence of black-and-white video drone footage taken in natural landscapes and animation.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2019-Nov-4]