The Messenger Documentary
The Messenger film showing is free and open to the general public.
Date: Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016
Time: 6:30 pm; popcorn will be available to purchase
Place: Klamath County Main Library, 126 South Third Street
The Klamath County Library will premier the The Messenger film, a visually thrilling ode to the beauty and importance of the imperiled songbirds. Su Rynard’s wide-ranging and contemplative documentary The Messenger explores our deep-seated connection to birds and warns that the uncertain fate of songbirds might mirror our own. Moving from the northern reaches of the Boreal Forest to the base of Mount Ararat in Turkey to the streets of New York, The Messenger brings us face-to-face with a remarkable variety of human-made perils that have devastated thrushes, warblers, orioles, tanagers, grosbeaks and many other airborne music-makers.
On one level, The Messenger is an engaging, visually stunning, three-act emotional journey, one that mixes its elegiac message with hopeful notes and unique glances into the influence of songbirds on our own expressions of the soul. On another level, The Messenger is the artful story about the mass depletion of songbirds on multiple continents, and about those who are working to turn the tide. In the words of Boreal biologist Erin Bayne, “Could we live without birds? We don’t really know for sure … That’s one of the fundamental concerns when you play with nature, pull one piece out, and maybe that’s a pivotal piece, we just don’t know.”
Find out more about the documentary on The Messenger website. This premier film showing in Klamath Falls is made possible through a grant from the Klamath Basin Audubon Society. Following the film, the Library will host a Q and A session for the presentation led by Audubon member Marshal A. Moser. Marshal began professionally as Ohio Director of The Nature Conservancy, and has served as an ecological consultant for over 35 years. He is currently manager-naturalist at Lonesome Duck Ranch, 25 miles north of Klamath Falls.