A Nature Documentary on Dying Birds

Feature documentary

Director Mina Laamo

Producer Koko Productions/ Mina Laamo

Cinematographers Cristal Alakoski, Jarkko M. Virtanen

 

More than 3 billion birds have been lost across the EU and North America in the last half-century. In my lifetime. A Nature Documentary on Dying Birds explores the human mind and emotions in change in a setting when the whole society should take a new course in terms of nature, use of its resources and its protection.

The film conjoins observational documentary, interviews; real, dead and imaginary birds; dead and living nature; archive materials; film and digital materials and an abundant soundscape. The material is just as diverse as nature should be. 

Why is our relationship with nature so unnatural? Do we really think that gene banks and frozen zoos will save us from the collapse of biodiversity? Should our approach to the world, environment and ourselves be fundamentally different?