Vanishing Voices | Odd Salon EXTINCT 4/7
Channel: Odd Salon
Date: 2017-10-04

Odd Salon: EXTINCT
Reigh Robitaille ~ Vanishing Voices: Unwrapping Languages of the Past

Did you know that every 14 days, a language dies? However, a few lucky ones have risen from the dead. Discover the zombie languages that have found new life in the soliloquies of talking birds, and the murmurs of a lost language hidden for centuries in the wrappings of a mummy.

Stories of ancient beasts & monstrous marvels, lost species, last chances & rare survivors
Recorded live 9/19/2017 at Public Works, San Francisco, CA

Curated by Isolde Honore

Camera: John Adams
Edit/Post production: John Adams
Sound: Steen
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