The Singing Ape, Gibbon
If you see a forest and you don’t hear any gibbon, this is a dead forest.
2017-10-25
South Korea
97 minutes.
Overview
Humans belong to a group called anthropoids. Gibbons have the most human-like traits among the anthropoids. Gibbons are the only apes capable to sing like humans and communicate through their songs. This film documents an unprecedented attempt to investigate the musicality of multiple species of wild gibbons - siamang, the white-handed gibbon and the javan gibbon - surviving in the South-East Asians habitats. The story of endangered Asian Ape unfolds in this documentary with their songs in various situations.
Year 2017
Director Choi Pyeong Soon
Crew Warren Y. Brockelman (Research Assistant), Kim San Ha (Research Assistant), Kim Dong Kwan (Producer), Kim Mi Soo (Writer), Jeong Seul Gi (Researcher), Lee Chang Yeol (Cinematography)
Popularity 1
Language English, 한국어/조선말
