Marsh Birds of the Upper Nile

The film re-uses found footage from a hunting expedition along the Upper Nile in 1954 where birds were transformed into taxidermy displays at Chicago Natural History Museum. The journey of birds killed, collected, and transported to the United States move across three intertwined layers: the documentation of the hunting and the making of the installation; the detached gaze of museum visitors observing the finished display; and a ghostly sonic presence — the calls of birds, narrating the experience from beyond the archive.