Project Detail

For The Birds

Meredith Shearer- Aylward

Synopsis

Our story is set in dusty downtown Cape Town, at a time when poisoned pigeons fall out of the sky and magic is hard to come by. This is the story of an outsider, a loner who doesn't know what she's looking for until she finds it.

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Details

Year: 2009
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 10 mins
Format: 16mm
Director: Stacey howell
Producer: Milena Gevers, Benjamin Kaufman
Editor: Meredith Shearer-Aylward, Lorien Bolus
Screenwriter: Stacey Howell
Director of Photography: Meredith Shearer-Aylward
Production Designer: Janine Loubser
Sound: Ewald Hoon
Composer: Mr. Cat, The Jackal
Principal cast: Karle Gerber, Max Nadolny
Costume & Make-up Design: Lauren De Reuck

Genre

Experimental Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

AFDA - The South African School of Motion Picture and Live Performance.

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Driven by a recurring urge to encounter strangers with her camera, the filmmaker begins to film her solitary Greek Cypriot neighbour Pete in the tower block in London where they both live. Around the same time, her father in Denmark receives a cancer diagnosis requiring her to spend more time with him. As her father gradually slips back into the depression that made him absent when she was a teenager, she feels a need to document this transition. Her compulsion to enter into Pete’s life and to film him echoes with her desire for understanding her father’s experience of isolation and loneliness, as well as her own relationship to it. ALL THESE SUMMERS asks questions about responsibility in life and in film whilst intimately confronting the complexities of the daughter-father and filmmaker-subject relationship. Official Selection CPH DOX 2025

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