Getting High
Four cinematic short films illustrate life’s third act gracefully, each elevating thoughts to newly discovered heights and sharing wisdom that is garnered with age. Alison McAlpine's perfectly a strangeness (Canada 2024, 15 min) provides a sensory aural encounter and cinematic exploration of an abandoned astronomical observatory guided by three donkeys with attitude: Ruperto, Palomo, and Palaye. A citizen scientist shares the wonders of the tiny birds in his own backyard through snow and sun in Ryan Wilkes' The Bird in My Backyard (Canada 2024, 20 min). Words reign supreme in Marco Zingaretti's The Experimental Age (Italy 2024, 20 min) as celebrated Italian poet and author Erri De Luca climbs one step at a time into life's next moment, in what he deems his third and final horse. And facing the twilight of one's career turns to beauty in David Allen and Martin Dohrn's The Birds (UK 2024, 40 min) while turning their well-honed cinematic skills skyward to decipher the murmuration of thousands of seabirds put into play by a lone falcon.
Expected Guests
DAVID ELISCO: Executive Producer, The Birds
Films showing in this session:
A sensory aural encounter and cinematic exploration of an abandoned astronomical observatory guided by three donkeys with attitude: Ruperto, Palomo, and Palaye.
Through snow and sun, a passionate citizen scientist shares the wonders of the tiny birds in his own backyard.
Words reign supreme as celebrated Italian poet and author Erri De Luca climbs one step at a time into life’s next moment, in what he deems his third and final horse.
Facing the twilight of his career, a filmmaker turns his well-honed cinematic skills skyward to decipher the murmuration of thousands of seabirds put into play by a lone falcon.