This program will also play in-person at the Cinema Village - Purchase Ticket or Present SNW Pass.
Birds have cultural and scientific meanings without number. They populate our myths and metaphors, they teach us about evolution, language, and magnetic navigation, they serve as indicators of a shifting climate. Films in this program dance around these subjects and into others: signal degradation in the printing of Audubon color plates, the links between natural history sample collection and colonialism, the Persian story of the Simurgh, and the effects of light pollution. As ever, the lightness of feathered flight escapes simple categories.
Gavia stellata (Sea Mew Set with Stars) (Erin Espelie | United States | 2023 | 3 min)
As far as the world reaches (Daniel Frota de Abreu | Brazil / Netherlands / Belgium | 2024 | 27 min) (only in theaters)
Next Her Heart (Anna Kipervaser | United Arab Emirates / United States | 2023 | 12 min)
Puffling (Jessica Bishopp | UK / Iceland / United States | 2023 | 20 min)
Followed by a conversation with filmmaker Erin Espelie.
TRT: 62 min