Birdcatcher
A dissection of cinema as an object - on super 8 film with an early cinema aesthetic. In the film, the full arc of the cinematic process is witnessed, from the capturing of the subject (a bird), on through the alchemical processing of raw material, to the final exhibition of the newly re-animated subject. The bird, over the course of the film, is shown to complete its metamorphosis into a film object itself. Its new body is endowed with all the intangible qualities particular to motion pictures, but, like all things, is imperfect and finite.