An experimental short film made with the intention of repurposing found objects into a stop motion narrative.
While walking back to her car, Eloise watched a small bird fly into a window and drop to the ground, lifeless. For weeks, she brought it up in passing several times, until finally we decided to see if it was still there. It was.
Then, in a planter box outside our college art building, we spotted an owl pellet amidst the dirt and immediately began dissecting it with sticks. What we found was cosmic intervention - rat bones, the perfect size to act as a plausible stand in for our dead bird's skeletal structure.
From there, the course of action was clear: we had to memorialize this small creature who had perished too soon, who would not have died had humans not built a parking structure on it's home. We imagined a post-human world, one where teams of small autonomous robots scour the land with one goal: to reverse the environmental destruction of mankind.
The Robots Who Bring Dead Birds Back to Life was shot digitally on iPhone and composited in After Effects. The soundtrack is a joint effort between Eloise (melody) and I (drums), each of us composing to the final picture without listening to what the other was working on. It was screened at LMU's Mayer Theater in May 2022.