Vultures

Poetics of an ecological way of looking – a short by acclaimed 16mm filmmaker Ewelina Rosińska. Vultures circling overhead frame the humans below, as humans in turn frame the birds with their camera.

Two and a half meters in wingspan, flying overhead. When a human approaches a flock of vultures, the birds begin to circle them in order to identify the intruder. Filmed with a Bolex camera in Porto do Tejo, Portugal, the encounter becomes a double framing – the camera captures the birds, while their circling in turn frames us.

Programme section: Between Film and Art
Original title: Vultures | Year: 2021 | Duration: 3′
Country: Portugal
Director: Ewelina Rosińska | Production: Ewelina Rosińska | Cinematography: Ewelina Rosińska, Nuno Barroso | Editing: Ewelina Rosińska

FESTIVALS & AWARDS (SELECTION) 

Anthropocene Campus Lisboa: Parallax, 2020 | Wolf Cinema, Berlin, 2021 | Monokino, SHHH Festival of Silent Film and Electronics, Oostende, 2022

DIRECTOR’S BIO 

Ewelina Rosińska (1987, Poland) is an experimental filmmaker. She graduated from Jagiellonian University (Art History) and the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (Filmmaking). In her practice, she mainly works with the Bolex camera and collects images and sounds on a daily basis. Her graduation film “Ashes by Name Is Man” won the Best EXiS Award at the EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul and was nominated for the German Short Film Award in 2023. In 2024, she received a Berlin Senate grant for moving image artists. Her recent film “Unstable Rocks” premiered at Doclisboa International Film Festival 2024, followed by an international premiere at the CPH:DOX 2025, and was nominated for the Doc Alliance Award. She lives and works in Germany and Portugal.