Bird’s Eye View

Summer 2021

Bird’s Eye View is an art-science exploration of interspecies friendship between young people and birds for a future that is looking up. Based on art-science field notes of their observations and research on a local bird with whom they felt an affinity, these young people constructed and painted articulated wings made of recycled cardboard of crows, magpies, hawks, and beyond. This film integrates their embodied movement with science, words, puppets, and music from the imaginations of our Boulder City’s youth and is filmed on Boulder’s majestic Open Space Mountain Park trails. Bird’s Eye View offers the coming generation a narrative of hope that if we can see through the eyes of another species, we can not only solve our greatest challenge, climate change, but we can also find our own place of belonging and unity within the natural world.

Film by: Sara Herrin and Jonah Sublette