Understanding the universe begins with listening rather than seeing. Listening to the stars as much as to our unconscious mind. This is the idea around which both Jeffrey Zablotny’s film and Jana Irmert‘s soundtrack revolve.
The documentary follows the journey of neutrinos through three subterranean observatories – SNOLAB in Canada, Super-Kamiokande in Japan and IceCube beneath the Antarctic ice. Throughout the film, the narrator repeatedly returns to acts of listening: “We are listening for a whisper.” “Listening through stone, ice and water.” The scientists descend deep beneath the Earth’s surface because, as the film explains, “the surface of the Earth is full of interference.” Only underground, protected from the overwhelming…