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The Last of the Nightingales

Masha Karpoukhina · USA · Documentary · 33 min · 41K views

Directed by Masha Karpoukhina · Starring Bernard Krause, Katherine Krause · 2022

Soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause, who spent decades recording the sounds of nature, lost everything in a California wildfire and listens to what remains.

A haunting documentary about listening to a landscape as it falls silent and recovers.

The sign of a healthy ecosystem is the sound it makes. Masha Karpoukhina’s documentary follows soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause who lost everything in a California wildfire.

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