🕊️🦉🦅All the BIRDS taking flight 🦢🐦⬛🪿still frames from our film made into prints through the process of photo intaglio. In etched into a metal plate, ohhhh so messy and beautiful!
A series of photos by @joyaberrow from the land @ulpotha — A red rice farming community hidden in the Sri Lankan jungle. For half the year, it transforms into a global retreat — entirely off-grid, with no electricity, meals cooked on fire, and water drawn from springs that feed the wetlands.
Discover this new digital feature on arxipelag.com/stories 🌿
🕊️BIRD Trailer! An experimental black & white piece shot on 16mm this winter. The film explores the ritual and instinct of birds through human movement: a small flock of dancers echoing the shapes of murmuration, migration and wintering. It’s part myth, part performance, a quiet, sensorial meditation on how we relate to the creatures we share the landscape with.
🕊️Bird is now streaming on NOWNESS Picks and Vimeo.
Directed, Produced and Edited by
Lilith Piper & Joya Berrow
Creative Director
Lilith Piper
Director of Photography
Joya Berrow
Choreographer
Emily Orme
Sound Designer
Antonina Nowacka
Starling Murmuration Sound Recordings
Chris Watson
Starling Murmuration Footage
Jan van IJken
Costume Design
Honor Bathurst
Assistant Camera
Raffy Piper
Production Support
Luke Piper
Julia de Salis
#NOWNESSpicks: Co-directors Lilith Piper and Joya Berrow capture the movements and migration patterns of birds, translating their seasonal journey through dance 🕊️
Part myth, part performance, Piper and Berrow shape a quiet, sensorial meditation on our relationship with nature, and the connection between humans and the creatures we share our home with
Shot over winter in Somerset and Dorset, the 16mm black and white film captures the textures and atmosphere of the British landscape, as a small flock of dancers echo the shapes of murmuration, migration, and wintering
Tap the link in bio to watch the full film on NOWNESS 🎥
Directors @joyaberrow@lilithpiperdrawings
Music @antoninawidt
