Ashes And Snow (2005)

Ashes And Snow (2005)

60-minute feature film (DVD) written, directed, produced, and filmed by Gregory Colbert. 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.

Colbert's Ashes and Snow feature film captures extraordinary moments of contact between people and animals as seen through the lens of Colbert's camera on more than thirty expeditions to some of the earth's most remote places. The viewing experience is one of wonder and contemplation, serenity, and hope.

Edited by two-time Oscar-winner Pietro Scalia; narrated by actors Laurence Fishburne (English) and Ken Watanabe (Japanese). Musical collaborators include Michael Brook, David Darling, Heiner Goebbels, Lisa Gerrard, Lukas Foss, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Djivan Gasparyan.

Review
The power of the images comes less from their formal beauty than from the way they envelop the viewer in their mood. . . .They are simply windows to a world in which silence and patience govern time. --New York Times