Birds of America
Cultural, Movie screening, Cinema
in Montauban
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At the beginning of the 19th century, a French painter, Jean-Jacques Audubon, traveled through Louisiana to paint all the birds of the New Continent.
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The discovery of wide open spaces encourages the utopia of a young nation projecting itself into a world of incredible beauty. Since then, the American dream has been damaged and the work of Audubon forms an archive of the sky before the industrial era. On the banks of the Mississippi, "Birds of America" finds the traces of these birds, now extinct, and reveals another story of the national myth.
The screening will be followed by a conference with Gilles Béchard, ornithologist from the...The discovery of wide open spaces encourages the utopia of a young nation projecting itself into a world of incredible beauty. Since then, the American dream has been damaged and the work of Audubon forms an archive of the sky before the industrial era. On the banks of the Mississippi, "Birds of America" finds the traces of these birds, now extinct, and reveals another story of the national myth.
The screening will be followed by a conference with Gilles Béchard, ornithologist from the Tarn-et-Garonne Natural Sciences Society.
In partnership with the Departmental Media Library.
By Jacques Lœuille
France/2020/1H24/VOST
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- On February 27, 2024 at 8:30 PM
