The Ice Sings
A sound recordist travels to Patagonia to capture the vanishing music made by a cracking glacier.
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The story
A Chilean field recordist believes a glacier sings before it breaks. Her microphones capture tones that no software can classify, and the song changes whenever tourists arrive. The documentary follows the last recording season before the wall splits and takes its melody with it.
- Original title
- El Hielo Canta
- Pays / région
- Chili · Argentine
- Genres
- Documentaire · Expérimental
- Langue
- espagnol
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 76:00
- Director
- Valeria Rojas
Creative process
Director, editor, rights reviewer, and native-language reviewer approve creative, legal, and cultural outputs.
Human-led concept, script, casting bible, and rights review; Runway Gen-4.5 for primary cinematic video plates; Google Veo 3.1 with Flow for physics, camera, and alternate motion passes; Runway Aleph 2.0 for shot-level revisions; Blender and Resolve finishing with human editorial approval, subtitle review, and C2PA export.
- AI participation (source-declared)
- 75 %
- Creative method
- Prises de vues réelles avec IA
- Format
- Long métrage
- Resolution
- 4K
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
- Frame rate
- 24 fps
- Delivery format
- 4K DCP; ProRes 4444 XQ master; H.265 review screener.
- Subtitles
- anglais · coréen · thaï · français · espagnol · allemand · arabe