Birds have cultural and scientific meanings without number. They populate our myths and metaphors, they teach us about evolution, language, and magnetic navigation, they serve as indicators of a shifting climate. Films in this program dance around these subjects and into others: signal degradation in the printing of Audubon color plates, the links between natural history sample collection and colonialism, the Persian story of the Simurgh, and the challenges of light pollution. As ever, the lightness of feathered flight escapes simple categories.
