Ashes and Snow Film (Collector’s Edition)
Gregory Colbert’s Ashes and Snow 60-minute feature film captures extraordinary moments of contact between people and animals as seen through the lens of the artist’s camera on more than forty expeditions to some of the earth’s most remote places. Written, directed, produced, and filmed by Gregory Colbert, it is a poetic field study that depicts the world not as it is, but as it might be—a world in which the natural and artificial boundaries separating humans from other species do not exist.
Edited by two-time Oscar-winner Pietro Scalia; narrated by actors Laurence Fishburne (English), Enrique Roche (Spanish), and Ken Watanabe (Japanese). Musical collaborators include Michael Brook, David Darling, Heiner Goebbels, Lisa Gerrard, Lukas Foss, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Djivan Gasparyan.
Cover from handmade Nepalese paper sealed with natural beeswax; tied with thread stained with hibiscus tea leaves and a Nepalese bead.
To view a clip of the film, click here.
- 6.5 x 6.32 in / 16.5 x 16 cm
- 60 Minutes
- DVD, zone-free
- English, Japanese, Spanish
- ISBN: 9781933632629
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- animals:
- asian elephants
- sperm whales
- humpback whales
- royal eagles
- manatees
- peregrine falcons
- gyr falcons
- elands
- baboons
- cheetahs
- meerkats
- african wild dogs
- pilot whales
- harris hawks
- sacred ibis
- antigone cranes
- varacals
- cast:
- Bertha
- Gregory
- Venuri
- Khema
- Sobini
- Vinci
- Beny
- Sarki
- Chiko
- Senaitje
- Ann Sherbat
- Mamoud
- Vanessa
- Burmese monks
- written and directed by:
- Gregory Colbert
- cinematographers:
- Gregory Colbert
- Philippe Vene
- Koji Nakemura
- Acacio Almeido
- Yorgos Arvanitis
- narrators:
- Laurence Fishburne (English)
- Ken Watanabe (Japanese)
- Enrique Rocha (Spanish)
- editor:
- Pietro Scalia
- music:
- Michael Brook
- Patrick Cassidy
- David Darling
- Robert Een
- Lukas Foss
- Djivan Gasparyan
- Lisa Gerrard
- Heiner Goebbels
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Temple of Sound
- Cantor Samuel Vigoda
- produced by:
- Gregory Colbert
- post production supervisor:
- Alessandra Pasquino
- music supervisors:
- Peter Afterman
- Margaret Yen
- score producer:
- Michael Brook
- music editor:
- Richard Henderson
- additional editor:
- Elisa Bonora
- assistant editors:
- Shawn Mitchell
- Neil Jariwala
- apprentice editor:
- Sean Martin
- colorist:
- Clark Muller
- special thanks:
- Michael Ostin
- Nile Rodgers
- Andy Uterano
- Francis Pennington