Birdcalls
Synopsis
Can we write everything we hear down on a piece of paper? Or can we hear anything that is described in writing? A telephone answering machine is activated and all the messages it contains are played. But we do not hear family members talking about the Sunday dinner or an agitated neighbour complaining - instead we hear the sounds of twelve different birds and see a hand trying to find signs, symbols, letters to contain what has been uttered. As we move along, the symbols start do dance and start living a life of their own, dancing across the screen and becoming the language of far more than just the sounds of birds.
Director: Malcolm Sutherland
Country: Canada
Year: 2006
Production: Malcolm Sutherland
Length: 5 minutes
Image/ Sound: colour/sound
Music: Malcolm Sutherland
Projection format: Digital file, 1,78:1
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