Melanie is upset: she’s got a wound from the initial attackand the first flocks are already flying over town. Up until now the birds were faraway in the skies or behind the bars of a cage but they’re changing their nature:they’re becoming an image. All of Hitchcock’s films have only one thing in common:the screeching of birds. We’ve heard them since his first sound films, they are atthe centre of every film; each crime tears the veil of reality exactly like birdstear men. And from film to film there are countless shots, taken from the plot,separated from the bodies, appearing as a permanent stretch of wings before ouramazed eyes. The sounds disappear from the shots and the shots rise from the sounds,shots that are screams and screams that are visions: an image doesn’t have a nature,it’s always a product of imagination. « Or, il se pourrait que l’image soit du règneanimal… » Fernand Deligny Technical description : multimedia installation made outof 6 musical fountains and one dark room; frame from Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock(1960) Soundtracks from films such as: To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest, Psycho,The Birds, Marnie, Frenzy, Family Plot. 15 and 45 loops. Technical assistance :Davide Freitas.