i am hearing the last bird
super 8, regular 8, 16mm  I  5 min

The film I am Hearing the Last Bird is a meditation on blindness and the end of life. My grandmother died recently at the age of ninety-five years old. She had begun to go blind when she was eight-five. Because of this she had to radically reshape her life. This film is about this struggle. Before my grandmother went blind, sculpting was an important part of her life. After she went blind she had to learn to rely on her sense of touch to redefine her understanding of and place in the world surrounding her. My relationship with her also changed and this film is essentially about both of our changed understandings.

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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Over the years he fills a given surface with images of provinces and kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fish, rooms, instruments, heavenly bodies, horses, and people. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.  j.l. borges, the maker, 1960 *