Festival du film documenTerre - Ciné-débat "Langue des oiseaux"

By Erik Bullot. France 2022. 54 min. French version Winner of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Award at the Cinéma du Réel festival in 2022. SYNOPSIS: Told by a narrator from the future, after the sixth mass extinction, the film explores the virtues of translation, the desire for communication between humans and birds, and the attempts made to establish a possible exchange. It explores how ornithologists—as well as poets, artists, and scientists—have attempted to understand, interpret, and translate birdsong. Through these various translation efforts, the film implicitly raises the question of the evolution of our ethical and philosophical relationship with animals. Discussion with Vinciane DESPRET, philosopher and %AB festival patron %BB Fanny RYBAK, bioacoustician and lecturer-researcher at the Institute of Neurosciences at Paris-Saclay University