AFTER THE BIRDS by filmmakers Meira Blaustein and Megan Sperry, is a short film about my project WHEN THERE WERE BIRDS. Part documentary, part meditation on death, love, and the story of the first known flutes, it was shot in 2019 in my studio and Jane Street Art Center. It captures the first interactions of musicians Steve Gorn (bansuri flute) and Timothy Hill (harmonic vocals) with the installation and myself that then became an improvisational performance including Iva Bittova (vocals and violin). The creation of WHEN THERE WERE BIRDS was funded by an emergency grant from Foundation for Contemporary Arts and by an individual artist grant from Arts MidHudson.
