Last Whispers is a multi-media event. A video / audio installation and a virtual reality experience—an immersive oratorio—dedicated to the extinction of languages. 

A Sundance Film Festival 2019 New Frontier special feature, Last Whispers 7 min VR, will be projected to the audience after the 46 min video / audio installation. This multi-media event will be followed by a panel discussion.

In Lena Herzog’s oratorio, image and sound are poetically linked through 3D animation, drone video footage, and still images in black and white. Composed of historical linguistic recordings punctuated by the sound of collapsing stars, Last Whispers is a chorus of extinct and endangered languages, both spoken and sung.