Into the Endless Night
Year2025
Duration25 minutes
PictureDCI 4K
Sound7.1 Surround Sound
SupportersEPFL CDH AiR Enter the Hyper-Scientific and Mondriaan Fonds
Scientific PartnersEPFL - Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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The film begins an experimental documentary on bat cognition study. It then unfolds into a fictional scenario of two researchers navigating the edge of understanding as they work with EECCOO, an artificial intelligence operating as an interspecies interface between humans and bats. Years later, the researchers rediscover the system — in an evolved, mysterious form.
Credits
- Cast - Leandro
- Andrés Morales
- Cast - Maya
- Ash Olivera
- Creative Producer
- Marta Lillioja
- Associate Producers
- Christian Herrera Herrera, Carolina Herrera Herrera, and Cine House Panamá
- DOP
- Pietro Bulgarelli, CCR
- Art Director
- Dilvio Bonilla
- Sound Design and Mixing
- Diego Ezpeleta
- Composer
- Alex Catona
- Editor
- Alonso Víquez
- Sound Recordist
- Jose Rommel Tuñón T.
- Casting Director
- Marta Lillioja
Thanks
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Smithsonian Institution Avifauna Foundation / Panama Rainforest Discovery Center Gamboa Rainforest Reserve