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Le Peuple Migrateur

Pour quatre vingts millions d'années, les oiseaux ont jugé le ciel, mer et terre. Chaque printemps, ils volent de vastes distances. Chaque automne, ils volent le même chemin de retour. Ce film est le résultat de quatre années suivant leur incroyable Odysseys, dans le nord et puis hémisphère sud, espèce par espèce, survolant les mers et les continents. - Jacques Perrin

Winged Migration

For eighty million years, birds have ruled the skies, seas and earth. Each spring, they fly vast distances. Each Fall, they fly the same route back. This film is the result of four years following their amazing odysseys, in the northern hemisphere and then the south, species by species, flying over seas and continents. — Jacques Perrin

(from Winged Migration) Long one of France's most respected producers (Academy Award Winners Z and Black and White in Color) and actors (Z, Cinema Paradiso, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Donkey Skin and The Brotherhood of the Wolf), Jacques Perrin has more recently had a highly successful career creating films about nature, including Le Peuple Singe (monkeys) and Microcosmos (insects) and set in exotic locales (Himalaya). Now with his penultimate film Winged Migration Perrin takes on his greatest challenge yet: exploring the mystery of birds in flight. Five teams of people (more than 450 people, including 17 pilots and 14 cinematographers) were necessary to follow a variety of bird migrations through forty countries and each of the seven continents. The film covers landscapes that range from the Eiffel Tower and Monument Valley to the remote reaches of the Arctic and the Amazon. All manner of man-made machines were employed, including planes, gliders, helicopters, and balloons, and numerous innovative techniques and ingeniously designed cameras were utilized to allow the filmmakers to fly alongside, above, below and in front of their subjects. The result is a film of staggering beauty that opens one's eyes to the ineffable wonders of the natural world.

Earthbound, watching the birds fly across the sky, we undertook this film. We had to go higher, nearer the birds, within striking distance of the stars. How could we manage it? Man has dreamt of birds since the beginning of time. How to imagine being among the first to transform this dream into reality? I will always treasure the memory of the first time we achieved this. The cameraman was following the movements of the geese, with one hand the assistant pushed away those who came too near the camera: the whole spool of film ran out. Radiant, tears in their eyes, they looked at me, speechless, motionless. Their mastery and the technical result were of minor importance, they had been in the confidence of the birds in flight. What if, for the space of a year, we no longer waited for the seasons, what if we embarked on the most fabulous of journeys, what if, abandoning our towns and our countryside, we went on a tour of the planet? What if we understood that our borders did not exist, that the earth is a one and only space and what if we learned to be free as birds? —Jacques Perrin

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