Swifts
Original title: Rorýsi
Country: Czech Republic
Year of release: 2013
Runtime: 3 minutes
Colour: Colour
Language: No Dialogue
Subtitles: No Subtitle
Producer: Andran Abramjan
Camera: Andran Abramjan
Editing: Andran Abramjan
Swifts spend their entire lives in the air. They sleepwhile flying and are among the fastest birds in the world. The camera captures what their great speed makes impossible to see with the naked eye – the space-time of the swift’s flight in the form of stages of flight, trajectories and curves. Every summer, the birds perform their aerial acrobatics in the sky over the housing estate they call home, as they prepare for the long fl ight south.
The swift as an example of joy, in the air as an example of
home.
