To Die into a Bird is a ritual fairy tale crossing the thresholds between worlds, where dance, song, sculpture, and spoken word merge into a mythic gesture. Revealed through the ancient forests of Dartmoor, the film follows earthly folk, spectral guardians, and shape-shifters who move through moss-wrapped groves, fungal kingdoms, and the coffin paths that vein the granite moor. It tells of a Bird that eats human forms, of ancestors carried in salt, of bodies dissolving into lichen, stone, canopy, and stream.

Both an offering and an intra-world journey, the film celebrates the brittle body and Death as a sanctuary, a porous zone where identity loosens, composts, and returns to the living cosmos. Through elemental water crossings, dreamlike processions, and the metamorphosis of the corpse-being Elise, To Die into a Bird invites viewers into a landscape where myth and ecology breathe as one. Filmed with local artists, dancers, and the ancient earths of Dartmoor, the work is a testament to communal ritual, interspecies imagination, and the haunting beauty of the more-than-human world.

The film will be screened on the Friday and Saturday evenings, the event includes an artist’s introduction to the piece and short Q and A, the film running time is 21 minutes.

About the Artist

Anna Kushnerova is a Devon-based choreographer, filmmaker, and eco-somatic artist. Working through movement, sculpture, ritual, and experimental cinema, she explores the thresholds between human and more-than-human worlds. She is the founder of Human Clay CIC.

https://annakushnerova.com/to-die-into-a-bird

https://humanclaycic.com/to-die-into-a-bird

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