{"id":17931,"date":"2025-09-24T21:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17931"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:28:35","slug":"deborah-stratman-land-birds-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17931","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Stratman: Land, Birds, Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>O&#8217;er the Land<\/em> (2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Military marching, war reenactments, an RV sales pitch, immigration cops, narration by a guy who ejected from a plane and bounced through a thunderstorm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/stratman1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Guys who refer to machine guns as &#8220;freedom&#8221;<br \/>\nFirefighters, flamethrowers, waterwall<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/stratman3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Wild birds in some kind of audio experiment<br \/>\nIf i understand the credits, the archival-sounding stories were performances<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/stratman2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Ray&#8217;s Birds<\/em> (2010)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ray runs a raptor center &#8211; Stratman films his public demonstrations and splinters them into fragments.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/stratman4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Hacked Circuit<\/em> (2014)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first voice we hear is someone getting a crank call from a flock of birds, so there are birds in all her movies.  High-tech studio where a foley artist is recreating sounds from <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15233\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em>.  Our camera roving, invisible, goes into the studio and back outside in a loop, and jeez, that wasn&#8217;t a single take, was it?  Michael Sicinski saw it <a href=\"http:\/\/academichack.net\/truefalse14.htm\">at True\/False<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/stratman5.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O&#8217;er the Land (2009) Military marching, war reenactments, an RV sales pitch, immigration cops, narration by a guy who ejected from a plane and bounced through a thunderstorm. Guys who refer to machine guns as &#8220;freedom&#8221; Firefighters, flamethrowers, waterwall Wild birds in some kind of audio experiment If i understand the credits, the archival-sounding stories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[239,2381,91,1838,21,1664,2245],"class_list":["post-17931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-birds","tag-deborah-stratman","tag-filmmaking","tag-long-takes","tag-shorts","tag-sound-recording","tag-true-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17952,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17931\/revisions\/17952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}