Deep Ocean: Lights in the Abyss

Wild Films ~ Deep Ocean: Lights in the Abyss

Thursday, July 13, 2017 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
  • Library Hall

A featured film from the 2017 International Wildlife Film Festival!

The NHK team that captured the world's first footage of a live giant squid is going on a new deep-sea adventure. The destination is an illuminating "twilight zone" in a huge submarine canyon in Monterey Bay, North America. Equipped with a 4K camera system designed by NHK specifically for deep sea filming on state-of-the-art submarines, the crew encounters a world of countless exotic creatures including sparkling jellyfish and deep-sea fish that emit flashes. This is the world's first quest to film bioluminescent creatures in their natural environment in the deep fathom of our oceans. Observe the amazing mystery of these enlightening life forms that have survived harsh pitch-black environments, where the concept of "sunlight" does not exist.

Run time: 52 min.

WILD FILMS AT THE LIBRARY is a free series of award-winning international wildlife films selected from the International Wildlife Film Festival. The International Wildlife Film Festival was established in 1977 in Missoula, Montana with a mission to promote awareness, knowledge and unde.rstanding of wildlife, habitat, people and nature through excellence in film, television and other media.