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Set in a murky swamp full of birders, scientists and reporters, Ghost Bird explores the limits of certainty, the seductive power of hope, and how one phantom woodpecker changed a Southern town forever. This thrilling eco-noir investigates the strange but true story of a small town in Arkansas overrun by a nation of birders all in search of the Holy Grail with wings - the Ivory-billed woodpecker. Presumed extinct for over half a century, the iconic bird was seen flying through the bayous of eastern Arkansas in 2004 by scientists who announced the Ivory-bill's miraculous rediscovery. Or was it? Despite years of searching, the bird's fate remains a mystery. This witty, intelligent documentary brings the Ivory-bill's blurry rediscovery into focus, revealing our uneasy relationship with nature and the increasing uncertainty of our place within it.
Ghost Bird Educational Edition includes:
• A DVD of the film with a color table of contents insert.
• A comprehensive Educational Resource Guide (on separate CD) developed for both high-school and post-secondary educators across a variety of disciplines. Resource Guide contents include:
Film Synopsis, Biology and History of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Key Concepts and Questions, Graphical Time Line, Historic Distribution Map and Select Ivory-bill-ography.
• “A CLOSER LOOK" - Nine bonus scenes with over forty minutes of new Ivory-bill insights and
unexpected revelations. (40 Minutes)
Public performance rights are included with the educational DVD
Further Information:
DVD extras: “A Closer Look” – over forty minutes of additional scenes: “Dr. Jackson’s Cabinet of Curiosities”, “Florida: Deja Vu”, “Mary Scott: The Prehistory”, “Sonny Skinner: Taxidermist”, “The Sound & The Fury: Past Searches”, “Tim Barksdale: Eye Witness”, “Six Pixels: Ivory-bill or Inkblot?”, “Catfish Dude: Arkansas Outsider”, and “The Imperial Conspiracy”.
| Catalog Number: MC-1192 |
Type: Feature |
Genre: Documentary, Science / Nature |
| Copyright: 2010 |
Length: 85 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: |
UPC/EAN: 880198119292 |
| Label: Matson Films |
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Films In Compilation
Ghost Bird directed by
Scott
Crocker
USA,
Documentary,
2010,
01:25:00
Ghost Bird is a feature length documentary about an extinct giant woodpecker, a small town In Arkansas hoping to reverse it misfortunes, and the tireless odyssey of the bird-watchers and scientists searching for the Holy Grail of birds, the elusive Ivory-billed woodpecker.
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0000-00-00 The New York Times
"Crocker has turned a bird-watching tale into a multilayered story that will fascinate practically everybody in Ghost Bird, a witty, wistful documentary"
| 2010-10-14 New York Magazine
"Critics' Pick! This spellbinding documentary takes a small item from recent history...and turns it into a cosmic lament for the forest primeval and man's search for environmental redemption."
| 2010-10-14 The Wall Street Journal
"By turns witty and Metaphysical, Ghost Bird evokes the offbeat Americana of Errol Morris's "Vernon, Florida," while examining the nature of belief and the blurry margins of fact."
| 2010-10-14 NPR
"Beautifully crafted...heartbreaking, ironic and infuriating. It's a stunner."
| 2010-10-14 IFC
"Ghost Bird is a rare beast indeed -- a matter-of-fact documentary about a seemingly innocuous subject that manages to become profoundly moving."
| 2010-10-14 Artforum
"Ghost Bird considers the ways in which collegial debate, intellectual rigor, and a collective desire for objective truth are in danger of extinction."
| 2010-10-14 MACLEANS.CA
"By turns comic, mesmerizing and deeply poignant, this investigative documentary is reminiscent of the work of Errol Morris in the way it casts a spell while telling a story and building a case"
| 2010-10-14 Time Out New York
"Thanks to Scott Crocker's crisply edited balance of scientific backbiting, naturalist noodling and a macro-philosophizing...what could have been a niche-specific doc becomes something oddly compelling."
| 2010-10-14 BoxOffice
"Crocker...has fashioned an eco-doc that acknowledges the complexity of conservation issues without diluting its own activist stance...Ghost Bird has teeth."
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