Gabriel Abrantes’s inventive and sun-soaked transposition of Aristophanes’s 414 BC play The Birds to a mournful, present-day Haiti. Echoing the dramatic structure of a typical Aristophanes play, Abrantes furthers his unique brand of pageantry and textual conflation, enlivened by the beauty of his 16mm images.
- Director
- Gabriel Abrantes
- Country of production
- Portugal
- Year
- 2012
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 17'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- Birds
- Languages
- Greek, Haitian Creole
- Producer
- Natxo Checa
- Production Company
- A Mutual Respect Productions
- Sales
- A Mutual Respect Productions
- Screenplay
- Gabriel Abrantes
- Cinematography
- Gabriel Abrantes, Natxo Checa
- Editor
- Gabriel Abrantes
- Production Design
- Gabriel Abrantes, Natxo Checa
- Sound Design
- Gabriel Abrantes