REVELATION OF JONAH

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57 min, 2020

How many times have you managed to feel that something much greater than you surrounds and pervades you? You call it intuition, a premonition or conscience - but who is really knocking inside of you?

Three days, three nights, three lives in the belly of a whale...

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Eyes must become accustomed to the darkness in order to learn to distinguish light.

There is no other way to see clearly.

"...They do not built megacities, do not improve amenities, do not protect property, they are indifferent to technology, business and politics. 

They have no economic reforms, peace-keepers with guns, priests on the payroll, no private possessions, and no immovable property.

They do not make things immovable – for them the idea itself is equivalent to death.

Instead of charity, they have compassion; instead of diplomacy – sincerity; 

instead of museums – live art; instead of power stations - direct contact with energy..."

Written, directed and produced by

Alexander and Nicole Gratovsky

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Underwater cinematography

Rafa Herrero Massieu

René Heuzey

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On-land cinematography

Viktoria Fortunina

Maxim Drozdov

ANG

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Music

David Rothenberg, Arkady Shilkloper, Jivan Gasparyan, David Swarup, Mikkai Kumo, Bernard Abeille, Paul Brousseau, Alizbar, Kai Engel, Alexander Samodoum, Galina Parfenova

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Sound Editing

Tim Gauff

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Artifacts

The Dolphin Embassy collection

By the time of release of the film, we have spent about fifteen hundred hours with them. Each time we come back from these journeys unable to speak. The space we have been to transforms our vocabulary that thus far seemed to describe the world quite adequately. The new language soaks in, re-cultivates us. The language is so much more genuine, that we are no longer able to speak and think in terms of the past.

STILL PHOTOS

All underwater images in this documentary were shot in the open ocean and feature free-living pilot whales

I think civilization is about the way we interact with the world. Had human beings opted for different principles we would see the world differently and would have a different civilization. 

Where does the contact zone lie? 

There’s no other medium but focused attention. No other reason but Love. There’s nothing else to talk about. That’s all they have here.

It’s about reestablishing the connection. Accepting the gift that is both a treasure and a calling. Everything about their usual selves is also about possibilities open to us.

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