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BIRDSONG

Anouk De Clercq
Belgium, 2023
16 min.

Two birds in a weightless world. They summon the sun with a song until an eclipse brings out the stars. Birdsong is an attempt to see the beginning in the end, a meditation on a world without us, a postlapsarian paradise, a kind of love at last sight.

Birdsong is a video poem built around a flock of birds singing a song that harmonizes with a desolate world. In timelapse, everything synergizes with cycles that begin and end: the continuous movement of the sky, the sun entering and exiting the eclipse, the migrating robins disappearing and appearing in the frame, and leaving behind an immutable song. The presence of their trill is permanent, preceding man, and, possibly, outliving him and enduring even after his disappearance. Essentially, a song for a hopeful, new future, one detached from a present where the sky has become toxic. A meditation on a world where man doesn’t exist, a paradise under construction. (Emilian Lungu)

Data proiecție și locație

Joi, 28 Septembrie | 20:30

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
Cumpără bilet

Premii, festivaluri și expoziții

Anouk De Clercq

Anouk De Clercq explores the potential of audiovisual language to create possible worlds. Her recent work is based on the utopian idea of ‘radical empathy’. Her work has been shown in Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, MAXXI, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, BOZAR, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Berlinale, Ars Electronica, among others. She has received several awards, including the Illy Prize at Art Brussels in 2005 and a Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention in 2014. She is affiliated to the School of Arts University College Ghent as a visiting professor. She is a founding member of Auguste Orts and initiator of Monokino.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • VIDEO: Anouk De Clercq
  • ANIMATION: Thomas De Brabanter
  • MUSIC: Michaël Bussaer
  • TYPOGRAPHY: Vessel
  • SUPPORTED BY: Concertgebouw Brugge, De Singel & Het Collectief
  • PRODUCED BY: Auguste Orts

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