{"id":1060,"date":"2003-09-11T03:06:50","date_gmt":"2003-09-11T09:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:02:13","slug":"dead-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/09\/11\/dead-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Thursday, September 11, 2003, 8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/dead_birds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2383 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/dead_birds.jpg\" alt=\"dead_birds\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWhen I walked away from watching <em>Dead Birds <\/em>I almost seemed to stagger inside myself.\u00a0 Today I am still jarred by it and still trying to understand the guilty significance of what it tells us about ourselves.\u201d (Robert Lowell)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Highly acclaimed yet rarely screened outside of anthropology circles, <em>Dead Birds<\/em> is a non-fiction film about one of the most remote cultures on earth, the Dani of highlands New Guinea.\u00a0 Filmmaker Robert Gardner (Forest of Bliss) was leader of a 1961-62 Harvard University expedition to the Dani\u2019s Baliem Valley, where his team found a society of people locked in a pattern of incessant warfare against their immediate neighbors.\u00a0 Sober in tone, yet with a certain gritty lyricism, <em>Dead Birds<\/em> focuses on the warrior Weyak and the boy Pua, the pig-tender, as they go about their daily lives in a world circumscribed by chronic anxiety, obligate vengeance and mourning (Jim Trainor). 1964, Robert Gardner, USA, 83 min, 16mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, September 11, 2003, 8pm \u201cWhen I walked away from watching Dead Birds I almost seemed to stagger inside myself.\u00a0 Today I am still jarred by it and still trying to understand the guilty significance of what it tells us about ourselves.\u201d (Robert Lowell) Highly acclaimed yet rarely screened outside of anthropology circles, Dead Birds [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/09\/11\/dead-birds\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Dead Birds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[450,615],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8","tag-non-fiction","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10098,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/10098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}