Have you always wanted to see a short film whose premise is the presentation of increasingly absurd, hilarious and rollicking ways in which birds (and others) become legless? Then this is the movie for you.
A small bluish bird lands on a tree branch and screams at the top of its lungs, to no-one in particular: UUUUEGHH. Then its little legs break off and it tumbles despondently into the grass. The blood, bright red and reminiscent of a Ferrari Testarossa, gushes out incessantly. As happens in countless films and stories, some of them mythological, the plague starts in animals, specifically birds, and ends up infecting people. Is it an allegory about COVID-19 and the pandemic years? A comment on the finite nature of things? A gag repeated over and over without any purpose or agenda? Everyone can decide what they want, but there’s one thing you can’t discuss or debate – that this little 7-minute exercise is as morbid as it is hilarious. (Bruno Pereira)
