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May 06, 2009

Bird is the Word: Ghost Bird

Posted by Elaisha Stokes at 10:56 AM ET

Look up. Way up. What do you see? What do you think you see?

In the swamps of eastern Arkansas it might be a whole lot of nothing. Or so Ghost Bird a new film by director Scott Crocker suggests.

The Ivory-billed woodpecker has long been considered the Holy Grail by diehard birders who refused to believe it went extinct over sixty years ago. So when scientists announced that the bird had been found in the small town of Brinkley, Arkansas, it was celebrated around the world as the rediscovery of a lifetime. But the skeptics aren't convinced, and the evidence isn't conclusive.

What follows is a deep meditation on the politics of scientific discovery, the revival of a small town, and the hope for a species long considered a ghost from the past. Ghost Bird is not a film about birds, or environmental conservation. Rather it is a story of loss and belief, our difficult relationship with nature and our own tragic culpability. Ghost Bird is fundamentally a story about people.

Ghost Bird has it's world premiere at Hot Docs on May 6th at 9:45 PM at the Cumberland theater and May 8th at 1:30PM at the ROM.

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