Light On Earth

Wild Films ~ Light On Earth

Tuesday, December 19, 2017 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm
  • Library Hall

A featured film from the 2017 International Wildlife Film Festival!

The spectacular and magical light produced by glowworms, fireflies and luminous plankton is known as bioluminescence – light made by living creatures. But those quite familiar glows and flashes are just a tiny, easily observed fragment of a previously unexplored, mysterious realm. The sea at night sparkles, as millions of luminous plankton reveal the shapes of dolphins in a truly magical light show. But why do animals produce light of their own? For centuries, we could only marvel at the beauty and the mystery. But now, for the first time we can begin to reveal the amazing truth about living lights. Sir David Attenborough is our guide, as we venture into a world he describes as “utterly unlike our own.” He and a team of the world’s leading scientists take us on a quest into the fascinating realm of living light.

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 understanding of wildlife, habitat, people and nature through excellence in film, television and other media.