These are unsuspected populations who live above the classrooms. Shrews, small birds of prey and other insects coexist in the attic of the Sourzac school in Dordogne. A place which, when he was a child, always fascinated Pierre Feynie, the teacher’s son. Having become a videographer, he dedicated an animal documentary to it.
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On the screen, rodents, mice or field mice, catch the gloomy light captured by the automatic cameras. Seen up close, they are even more fascinating.
Mammals, birds of prey and insects coexist under the roofs.
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© P.Feynie
It’s this unsuspected life in the abandoned floors of the Sourzac school that Pierre Feynie tracked for almost five months: rodents, insects, birds of prey and even bats. After two years of training at IFFcam, the wildlife documentary school, the videographer returned in his own footsteps to make his graduation film.
The attic of the Sourzac school, an ideal filming location for an animal documentary.
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“I was a student here and upstairs was the forbidden thinghe remembers. But, privilege of the mistress’s son, I went there much later…”
Last June, we went up, we saw all these animal tracks and it really made me want to make a film!
Pierre FeynieDirector of the documentary “Ink and Feathers”
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The young videographer returned to his childhood school, where his mother is still a teacher. He made an animal documentary, in the attic of the school which fascinated him as a child.
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To capture these moments of daytime and nocturnal wildlife, the young videographer equipped himself with automatic cameras which he placed in the abandoned parts of the building. “There, it’s a camera box, a motion detector right here… I put a lot of hunting cameras on to see if there are things, where they go and at what time. It serves as a full-time scout.”
Some birds of prey have their habits.
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It is also, thanks to this preparation work, that he can place his equipment in strategic places, where his actors will be able to give the best of themselves.
Rodents, birds of prey and insects are the main roles in the documentary from Périgourdin P. Feynie.
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Moreover, not all of its actors are hairy, mustachioed, or equipped with claws or sharp beaks. Some are even quite nice and most of the time easier to film. In his documentary “Ink et of feathers”, the village children are part of the cast. Without stopping at the wildlife wild and thanks to the complicity of his mother, a teacher, Pierre Feynie was able to integrate the presence of schoolchildren into his story.
It is also by relying on these scenes of daily school life, in this class that he knows well, that the videographer reveals to us the hidden and wild side of this small country school.
Very beautiful images tinged with mystery, and ua doubly enriching experience. For Pierre Feynie as for the children who thus had access to knowledge worthy of an Earth Sciences and Life course without even realizing it…
“Ink et of feathers” is freely visible on the chain Youtube of Pierre Feynie.
