Dead Birds

Dead Birds (1963)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1963-10-01
  • User Rating: 5.8/10 from 9 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 24min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Peabody Museum
  • Production Country: Papua New Guinea, United States of America
  • Director: Robert Gardner
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From 9 Ratings

Summary

The film's title is borrowed from a Dani fable that Gardner recounts in voice-over. The Dani people, whom Gardner identifies mysteriously as "a mountain people," believe that there was once a great race between a bird and a snake, which was to determine the lives of human beings. Should men shed their skins and live forever like snakes, or die like birds? The bird won the race, dictating that man must die. The film's plot revolves around two characters, Weyak and Pua. Weyak is a warrior who guards the frontier between the land of his tribe and that of the neighboring tribe. Pua is a young boy whom Gardner depicts as weak and inept.

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  • Robert Gardner

    as Narrator
Directing Robert Gardner Director
Editing Robert Gardner Editor
Crew Robert Gardner Cinematography
Writing Robert Gardner Writer
Sound Michael Rockefeller Sound Recordist
Sound Jairus Lincoln Sound Editor
Sound Joyce Chopra Sound Editor
Art Peter Chermayeff Title Designer

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