Fascinating documentary, signed Jacques Lœuille, on the banks of the Mississippi and in the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Audubon, pioneer of ornithology and ecology.
Published: May 24, 2022 at 3:35 p.m.
Reading time:
1 min
At the beginning of the 19th century, the French artist Jean-Jacques Audubon set out to paint all the birds of the New Continent. His Birds of America is a work of inestimable value, scientific, artistic, and the testimony of a lost world. Today, the birds have left the skies of Mississippi, the green horizons have been swallowed up in the great industrial and urban centers, and with them the Osage, Houma, Ojibwe nations…” What happened to the Indians happened to the birds. They have disappeared from the landscape. »
Views of present-day Louisiana, interviews and voice-overs, excerpts from the (wonderful) Audubon plates: gently, without shock effects or images, Jacques Lœuille traces an intelligent and disturbing counter-history of the United States. Naturalist, human, very political.
The film was supported by Pictanovo, which accompanies its release in the Hauts-de-France region.
By Jacques Lœuille. France. 1 h 24. Documentary.
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