A Hot Docs, Silverdocs, Rotterdam and Karlovy Vary selected doc that has been mentioned in some programs as an Into the Wild-like in nature has won European Documentary Film Award’s 2009 Prix ARTE prize (for Best Doc). Peter Liechti’s The Sound of Insects — Record of a Mummy was cited for “it’s skillful exploration of minimalist means to create an extraordinary
visual story between life and death“. I’ll would have made a call out for a screener copy, but I’ll be catching the doc at RIDM Montreal next month – the trailer below basically demonstrates how you can do a lot with very little.
Based on the novella “Until I am a Mummy” by Japanese writer Shimada Masahiko, itself based on the real-life journal of a man in a remote forest who committed suicide by self-starvation. A hunter stumbled over his mummified remains in a makeshift tent.