Director Jacques Lœuille at the Deauville film competition, 4 September 2021 LOIC VENANCE
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The documentary “Birds of The united states”, offered Saturday at the American competition in Deauville, draws a striking parallel in between the drawings of birds by Jean-Jacques Audubon (1785-1851) and their disappearance subsequent ecological disasters in the southern United States. .
From the first sequence, the viewer discovers Mississippi’s gigantic oil installations as a voiceover reads an excerpt from Audubon celebrating the elegance of hundreds of New Globe birds.
Since Audubon, unidentified in France but with a comparable notoriety to that of La Fayette in the United States, observed, detailed and painted hundreds of birds, some of which are now extinct, such as the Carolina parakeet, the ivory woodpecker or the capercaillie.
The naturalist, who anglicized his 1st name (John James), as a result behaved as an archivist of the sky and of species that would progressively disappear as gentlemen took possession of the territory.
“Considered the initial ecologist in the United States, he sees the initial industrial revolution using area. He witnesses the enormous destruction” of species, director Jacques Loeuille, 38, of which he is the initial feature film, describes to AFP, who promises to be incredibly influenced by the cinema of Chris Marker (1921-2012).
As a result, the Carolina parakeet, for example, was decimated by firearms in the 19th century because it fed on shrub and tree seeds, specifically in orchards.
On a journey in between previous and current, “Birds of America” also crosses the banking companies of the Mississippi and fulfills the descendants of Indian communities who have experienced to exile by drive, primarily for the duration of the “route of tears” (the path of tears , concerning 1831 and 1838).
The digital camera also stops in close proximity to citizens of “Cancer Alley” in Louisiana, where inhabitants are hit difficult by manufacturing unit air pollution. The eerie photographs of useless trees in the Mississippi Delta, where individuals are also affected by erosion, are chilling and look significantly removed from the lush nature that when delighted Audubon.
The documentary movie will be released in French cinemas upcoming March.
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