Nocturnes

Every night an Eastern Himalayan valley is lit up by an illuminated sheet flooded with buzzing insects, subjected to the loving gaze of a small research team. 

With awe-aspiring lush and misty mountainscapes as her office, Mansi dedicates her life to the mechanical and time-consuming process of observing, photographing, and measuring a specific type of moth. She might be the archetypical scientist—steadfast, razor-focused, and a little mad. Through the capturing of intimate conversations and a slow-paced approach, the film shows Mansi’s drive and how her infectious passion for moths gradually takes hold of her Indigenous assistants. It’s a radiating eco-document, made all the more beautiful by the immersive soundscape, and a whispered plea to confront ourselves with the far-reaching consequences of human-sparked temperature rise. -Thomas Streekstra.

Can’t make it to this film during InScience in Nijmegen? Then you have another chance at our satellite edition in Wageningen. This film will be shown on March 21 at 19:00 in Visum Mundi. For more information, click here.