Ruminations of a Seagull
“If you ask me, I don't think you can really say that you love birds if you hate seagulls. “
An Essayistic film on Ideals, Borders, Flying and the Politics of space narrated by a Seagull
Short film
6 min
released in 2025
The short film collects thoughts and patterns influenced by studies in Sociology and Urban Planning and Design, connecting themes of romanticism, nationalism, over-rationalization, and the fantasy of control through the naive thoughts of a seagull.
The film problematizes the ideal, drawing on a passage from Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving, where Denis de Rougement suggests that:
The search for “the” ideal [person] is a way of avoiding loving real people, since “the” ideal mate is really only a reflection of oneself as one would like to be; it is not another person with a life of his or her own.”
The film includes
archive footage of a man shooting seagulls at the Reykjavík pond in front of a kindergarten,
technocratic satellite imagery mapping of where seagulls are allowed, and
a party story from a socially awkward Seagull.
