French filmmaker Chris Marker will forever be one of our most beloved visionnaires. His dystopian points of view are beautifully articulated in short films like La Jetée (1962) and Junkopia, and in feature length experimental films like Level Five (to name just a couple of our favorites).

Lesser known video works by Chris Marker are seen in the collection Bestiaire, aka Petit Bestiaire from 1990. In these short videos Marker focuses his camera on one or another species from the animal kingdom.

An Owl is an Owl is an Owl is a short that edits together a sequence of different species of owls, often turning their head to stare back at the lens, and set to electronically treated phrases and synthetic sounds.