Bird in Italian is Uccello

Gernot Wielands new film Bird in Italian is Uccello 2021 furthers his interest in psychological states and the constitution of belonging in different social contexts Drawing upon Daphne du Mauriers short story The Birds and its subsequent cinematic adaptation Bird in Italian is Uccello reenacts a theatrical production of the horrorthriller Working specifically with an account of a never performed theater production of Mauriers story one that was meant to be staged at a psychiatric hospital in northern Italy Wielands film inverts the original scripts roles human characters become birds and the bird protagonists become humans