WINGED MIGRATION
| 2003 – 98′ – Documentary, Nature & Environment.
Written by: Jacques Perrin.
Directed by: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats.
Academy Awards 2003 Nomination for Best Documentary.
In English or in French with English subtitles.
A Sony Pictures Classics release. |
This documentary presents an epic portrait of winter bird migration. Filmed on all seven continents over four years, the footage is brought together into one portrait of a journey that’s uniformly arduous for all kinds of different birds. Rather than concentrating on statistics and facts, the film near-wordlessly portrays the sheer physical effort demanded of the birds on their disparate routes. Along the way, we see the many dangers they face, from man-made waste to a group of hungry crab.