Private Project

The Crow War

Teetering between nostalgia and an uneasy present where all trees are being chopped down, HARD, The Crow War is a poetic exploration of memory, materiality and modern disconnection. The film follows a drifting narrator haunted by the childhood taste of snow ice cream. Now navigating a heat-stricken urban landscape where vegan dog ice cream trends on social media and crows battle over scraps of artisanal sourdough in parks, she reflects on the shifting value of things both tangible and ephemeral.

  • Kathleen Bryson
    Director
    Four feature films (see iMDB)
  • Kathleen Bryson
    Writer
  • Kathleen Bryson
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 23, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Kathleen Bryson

I am an Alaskan director (4 produced feature films) and novelist (3 published novels) and painter (10 solo exhibitions). My day job is working as an evolutionary anthropologist studying the ethics of virtual reality and mixed reality for the EU (12 peer-reviewed first-author or single-author research articles; 2 non-fiction books; 1 Ph.D. thesis!). I live in London (UK).

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Director Statement

The Crow War is part of a larger environmentalist feature-in-progress called Madame Earth.