Film Screening & Artist Talk: To Die into a Bird by Anna Kushnerova
Join us for the screening of To Die into a Bird, followed by an in-conversation between Anna Kushnerova and curator and researcher Orjana Rudeloff.
To Die into a Bird is a myth whispered by wind and stream, it is an offering to the spirit of Dartmoor’s ancient forest and the brittle body of death. Written and directed by Anna Kushnerova, this 21-minute film unfolds through the voices and movements of earthly folk, spectral guardians, and shape-shifters, choreographed by lichen, granite, and grief.
Emerging from moss-wrapped groves and the fungal breathing of the moor, the story tells of a Bird that eats Human forms. Of coffin roads veined through fern valleys. Of ancestors carried in salt. It is a tale received through place, composted through body, and spoken in the tongue of rot and ritual.
The film traverses death as a sanctuary, a porous zone of shapelessness where we dissolve into canopy, string-of-sausages lichen, and witches’ whiskers. Through decomposition, we trespass the human, reclaiming the kinship between body and cosmos, spirit and soil. Filmed with the participation of local artists, dancers and the ancient earths of Dartmoor.
FREE // All Welcome. Please RSVP via Eventbrite
Monday 23 November 2026
Plymouth Arts Cinema
18:00 - 19:30
