HSDFF 2009 Film List

In 1890, one man had the idea to collect every bird ever mentioned in Shakespeare’s
writing and release them into Central Park. The only bird to survive in the New
World was the European Starling, now one of the commonest birds in America. Its
introduction is now widely considered a major environmental disaster. The Commoners
is a moving image essay about starlings, poetry, and the purist rhetoric
used to describe ‘invasive species.’ It is also about the paths people forge through
history, intentionally or not, as they attempt to change the natural world.
 
 
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