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  BIRDS | 2012

BIRDS | A Whistled and Text Code For Canary Wharf London| 2012| Single Channel Video | 8mins BIRDS is a film made with four participants a group of young men, who were given the task to invent a code communicated with whistled speech and phone texts for the purpose of a navigating the city landscape. The game takes place in the financial district of Canary Wharf, their aim is to avoid being seen by the numerous CCTV camera’s throughout the underground and business areas of Canary Wharf. The film transposes whistled language traditionally used in rural mountainous areas into the urban structures and office tower blocks of Canary Wharf. It combines this whistled form of medium range communication with current telecommunication devises in the form of text messages and mobile twitter. The film has a social political dimension as it collages the young group of men with the conventional work environment and global financial surroundings, the men appear out of place and their actions prove ominous and perhaps feral or animal hence the title ‘BIRDS’. Along with their subversive activities communicating in code and dodging the CCTV, the film broadly aims to examine the tensions present in this environment and the parameters of social and personal freedom in such urban spaces. Credits; A film by Laura Cooper, Camera Laura Cooper ,Tony Ukpo. Sound Laura. Cast John Kamau, Henryk Roberts, Kevin Kamara, Mark Gillion.