Country: United States, Uganda
Year: 2023
Language: English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Runtime: 94 mins.
Deep in the forests of western Uganda millions of long-horned grasshoppers swarm together to mate in a rare reminder of Nature’s epic scale. It follows that Man has found a way to profit from this beautiful reproductive cycle. Harvesting grasshoppers is a seriously lucrative business; fortunes are made in a matter of weeks providing this delicacy to city-dwellers in the lowlands. Following a local trapping team in verité style, these modern day prospectors push into remote forests and villages seeking their fortune by capturing this elusive prey by the barrel load with powerful lights. In contrast, specialized macro cameras simultaneously transport the audience into an immersive natural world from the perspective of the grasshoppers accentuating the bizarrely human-like qualities of these insects. As our metaphor on Man’s fraught relationship with Nature continues to unfold, we learn the harrowing cost that these toxic lights bestow upon our band of trappers and their homeland.
DIRECTOR
Daniel McCabe
Daniel McCabe is a New York based photographer and director. His work has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC, Al Jazeera and CNN among others. This is Congo (2017) is Daniel’s first feature-length documentary. His latest work Grashopper Republic (2023) was selected at Visions du Reél.
Director:
Daniel McCabe
Cinematography:
Daniel McCabe, Michele Sibiloni, Michael McCabe
Production:
Daniel McCabe, Michele Sibiloni, Alyse Ardell Spiegel, Otto Bell
Editing:
Alyse Ardell Spiegel
Music:
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
contacto: fest@taskovskifilms.com
Screenings
León
21.7.2023
16:00 (Horario CST)
Teatro Estudio 
San Miguel de Allende
27.7.2023
14:00 (Horario CST)
Auditorio Miguel Malo | Centro Cultural Ignacio Ramírez "El Nigromante"