After deep thought, Man runs on pier sending birds into flight

A grey evening in Düsseldorf. Birds pass over the noisy city. A young man seeks refuge in the “Fortuna news stand” and drinks coffee to keep his exhaustion at bay, but nods off regardless. Flocks of birds follow him into his daydream, in which he tries to escape his isolation and sense of being trapped.

While birds can be heard singing a shrill song, lines crisscross wildly as if they aimed to form shapes. Their efforts seem hopeless until the very end ,,,

A man carries heavy stones. In the sky, a bird flies.

Among the penguins living on a rocky island there was one who went on his own ways. He dreamed of rising into the air. After one of the unsuccessful attempts, he dropped into the water and caught a gold fish that turned him into a balloon for his wishes. Fascinated by the plane, he asked the fish to become a great machine. He flew around the world. He introduced confusion on air routes and disrupted the work of radars. Tired he returned to the island and fell like a dead man. After waking up, he happily joined the other penguins.

«These are not dogs» could be a title loosely adapted from Magritte. Man’s best friend is liberated from the force of gravity, gliding through space and time in extreme slow motion and experiencing its rebirth as an abstract being. The laser beams and the driving melodic techno track by Vitalic hark back to the pop culture of the 1980s. A project about freedom, naivety and happiness.

Variation on a universal theme: man has always dreamed of being able to fly. Planes are hovering in the electric poles and the birds mock those ignorant who hunt them but kill themselves.

"The birds have flown, spreading their dark wings, their shadow cast upon us, us so small, for them, so high in the sky" A Short Film about a passionate man and his birds.