The Night Visitors

Michael Gitlin

2023 | 01:12:23 | United States | English | Color | Dolby 5.1 | 16:9 | HD video

Collection: New Releases, Single Titles

Tags: Animals, Environment, Feature Length, Nature

The Night Visitors is a movie about moths. In large and small fragments, looking both inward and out, through a critical lens that is by turns social and personal, the film closely examines these under-known creatures. While The Night Visitors is interested in moths as organisms, with fascinating life histories, staggering biodiversity, and a functional importance as indicators of climate change and habitat degradation, its engagement with them is not primarily entomological. Instead, the film looks at moths as aesthetic beings and as carriers of meaning, aiming for a deep encounter with the beauty and incommensurability of the profoundly other.

The small hours of the night are threaded through with a sense of mortality and loss. Moths, with their trembling and exquisite impermanence, provide both a kind of solace and, in their diversity and difference, a focal point around which the desire to know can be organized.

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Prizes + Awards

Stone Award for Outstanding Artistry, DC Environmental Film Festival, Washington DC, 2024
Research Award, Athens International Film Festival, OH, 2024
Best Feature, Portland EcoFilm Festival, 2024
 

Exhibitions + Festivals

The 61st New York Film Festival, 2023
The Prague Science Film Festival, 2023
The Science New Wave Festival, 2023
Camera Obscura, Petaluma, CA, 2023
International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2024 
Doc Talks at The New School, 2024
F.I.L.M Series, Hamilton College, 2024 
Upstate Films, Rhinebeck, 224
Amherst Cinema, Amherst MA, 2024
AFO Science Film Fest, Czechia, 2024 
Wānaka, NZ Community Film Fest, 2024 
Jacob Burns Film Center, 2024
Filmfest München, 2024
Ventilator Cinema, Amsterdam, NL, 2024 
Hunter Art House Cinema, Hunter NY, 2024 
Rooftop Films, Brooklyn NY, 2024 
Community garden in Sommerville, MA, 2024 
Into the Great Wide Open Festival, NL, 2024 
Innsbruck Nature Film Festival, 2024