A mother bird tries to teach her little one how to find food by herself. In the process, she encounters a traumatic experience that she must overcome in order to survive.
Direction
Zero dialogue, maximum storytelling economy
Sound
Adrian Belew's score makes bird anxiety somehow beautiful
Director
Alan Barillaro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Alan Barillaro spent three years developing new software just to animate how wet sand sticks to feathers.
Won the 2017 Oscar for Best Animated Short, beating Pixar's own 'Inner Workings' — the studio basically competed against itself.
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