Emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, properties or behaviors which emerge only when the parts interact in a wider whole.
This beautiful concept is the title of my new short film, created with real footage of flocks of starlings in flight.
Like in my last short film “Murmurations”, I focus on the amazing flights of starlings, though this time I highlight each individual and their complex relationship with the flock by playing with perception in two ways: by inverting the footage and slowing it down.
The soundtrack was also created by slowing down real bird calls between 10 and 20 times. The bird calls come from different species like the Common Nightingale, the Tawny Owl, and the Starlings themselves.
These complex flights, which appear to be orchestrated by superior intelligence, are actually the result of each bird following a few very simple rules to guide their movements.
This not only occurs between birds but also between the cells of a muscle, in the creation of a snowflake and the way a virus spreads. This is Emergence.
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