Film and text by Lutz Stautner:
When I first heard Ludwig Berger’s recordings of a melting glacier, I could hardly believe they were real. They reflected what I’d long associated with glaciers: complexity, excitement, life.
By approaching the glacier through sound, by making it seem alive, Berger gave me a whole new perspective, not just on climate change caused by humans, but on coexistence. The short documentary above, “Crying Glacier,” explores what we can learn by listening.
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This Op-Docs film is a collaboration between Lutz Stautner (https://www.instagram.com/luuuutz/), a filmmaker from Cologne, Ludwig Berger (https://f-o-m.bandcamp.com/album/crying-glacier), a sound artist and composer based between Montreal and Alsace, France, and El Flamingo (https://www.el-flamingo.de/), a creative studio in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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