It’s not easy to find the animals you are trying to film. This ecosystem is filled with tiny to medium-sized creatures who are mostly hiding from bigger predators that live in the forest. It wasn’t rigorous scientific research, but it was immensely helpful in providing proof of certain observations and hypotheses, and in identifying new species and documenting animal behaviour. Unlike a lot of scientists, he was in the ecosystem every day and was taking photographs and videos of everything he saw. In time, the Professor’s young PHD student, who has since graduated, Dr Jannes Landschoff started to work alongside Craig, helping him identify, classify and collate all of the animals and behaviours he was observing.Ĭraig was doing something unique. Griffiths of the Marine Biology Department at the University of Cape Town. Over years of diving and exploring the intertidal zone, Craig had become a kind of citizen scientist, under the mentorship of Emeritus Professor Charles L. The kelp forest, or Great African Seaforest, is a giant underwater forest home to an immense biodiversity and abundance of marine life. It also required extensive scientific input in order to understand all of the complex animal behaviours Craig had captured on film.
This material required multiple viewings in order to identify a key narrative. There were hundreds of hours of footage spanning years of Craig’s daily dives in the Seaforest and more recent experiences with octopus. Their lifespan is only about eighteen months.
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Free admission and post-show discussion, as part of the Spring Sustainability Series.By the time they started the edit, the octopus had passed away.
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The series is possible thanks to the support of: Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, OHIO Honors Program, Honors Tutorial College, Cutler Scholars, Office of Sustainability, Center for Campus & Community Engagement, University College, and beloved nonprofits and businesses. Please join us for a conversation following these beautiful, thought-provoking and timely films. The events will be in-person.įollowing each film we invite audience members to join us for a panel discussion hosted by faculty members, students and community members. In keeping with all previous series, each film will be followed by a panel discussion featuring faculty members, students and community members. PROOF OF COVID-19 VACCINATION OR NEGATIVE TEST ARE REQUIRED FOR ENTRY TO THE ATHENA CINEMA.Īthena Cinema, University Libraries and Environmental Studies Program present the 9th annual Sustainability Film Series.
An immersive portrait of human–animal understanding, brimming with danger, drama and devastating emotion, My Octopus Teacher grabs you with all eight arms and changes its camouflage-showing you colours and textures you’ve never seen before.
The underwater encounters are literally breathtaking as Foster holds his breath while interacting with the octopus.
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This beautiful record of an animal’s entire life-something seldom achieved in the wild, let alone underwater-was shot over a full year and explores the habits and personality of a strange, undulating creature that most of us have only ever eaten.īeyond intelligent, dextrous and resilient, the cephalopod shares her secret world with Foster as they develop a touching bond. What he discovers below the water’s surface is a totally alien motivation in the form of an unusually curious octopus. Craig Foster, suffering from a loss of purpose, begins a daily diving regimen in the freezing kelp forests at the tip of Africa in order to re-energize himself.
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