Synopsis
Vivid situations, concentrated observations, journals from scientific expeditions and art compelling animations create a distinctive documentary about the fragile and vital relationships between humans, birds and the landscape.
Through globetrotter, renowned ornithologist and pioneer of telemetric bird tracking Lubomír Peške, we will see how changes in these relationships affect the life and death of birds. And this on the level of individuals, populations and species.
Thanks to transmitters and photo traps, the European honey buzzard, the Ibis or the Blackbird are transformed from anonymous pieces into concrete beings and drawing our attention to their fates. There is a strange contradiction between the fact that humans are able to build a relationship with a specific individual, but that, in Peške's words, in terms of the survival of the population, the means nothing in a way. It is the complex relationships within the environment that must be in order for individual species to thrive.
But when we watch one of the last wild ibis in the Syrian desert, or a family of nuthatch in a box in the garden, we see that individuals do matter. Or rather, it's our relationship with them that matters. Warm attentiveness towards other creatures, which Lubomír Peške shows us in the film, leads us to think about what it actually means to have a living relationship with nature. And what would it mean if such an approach would be common.
Through globetrotter, renowned ornithologist and pioneer of telemetric bird tracking Lubomír Peške, we will see how changes in these relationships affect the life and death of birds. And this on the level of individuals, populations and species.
Thanks to transmitters and photo traps, the European honey buzzard, the Ibis or the Blackbird are transformed from anonymous pieces into concrete beings and drawing our attention to their fates. There is a strange contradiction between the fact that humans are able to build a relationship with a specific individual, but that, in Peške's words, in terms of the survival of the population, the means nothing in a way. It is the complex relationships within the environment that must be in order for individual species to thrive.
But when we watch one of the last wild ibis in the Syrian desert, or a family of nuthatch in a box in the garden, we see that individuals do matter. Or rather, it's our relationship with them that matters. Warm attentiveness towards other creatures, which Lubomír Peške shows us in the film, leads us to think about what it actually means to have a living relationship with nature. And what would it mean if such an approach would be common.
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