Garrett Pruter I The Birds : Viewing room

I initially started thinking about The Birds because it was the most absurd application of this premise of 'erasing the threat' that I could think of because their presence in the film is so constant that it feels nearly atmospheric. - Garrett Pruter 

The montages emerge from an ambitious, ongoing work in which Pruter laboriously re-edits Alfred Hitchcock's iconic thriller 'The Birds' (1963), removing all the birds. Employing frame-by-frame digital painting, rotoscoping, and sound editing, Pruter's contemporary reimagining shifts the film's context, distorting its narrative by erasing the perceived threat. Pruter expands a second of footage into structural montages, each arrangement like a film reel of climactic stills. As in Pruter's reworked and re-edited video work, the omission of the birds brings to fore quotidian backdrops, opening up new spaces and interpretations of Hitchcock's original.