Black Birds

One day a box

Emerged from the sea

And from the box

Came a wind full of stories

Every year the women

Would let down the ladders

And the children would ascend

Many years later

The children would come back

Emerging from the sea

All grown up

And during that time

Black birds would flock

And dim the sky

The wandering & disappearance of children was a common theme in early storytelling as was the destructive and nurturing nature of the sea.

The video is constructed through experiments with drawings & objects, fed through a slide projector while incorporating dreamy bird-song and the feeling of waking up somewhere strange in the world.