“The reasons why we tend to see ourselves in a seemingly silly bird, it’s about his faith in his situation, that maybe if he tries enough his feelings will be reciprocated”. ![]() “What touched me especially about this story is how people feel heartbroken when they hear Nigel’s story”, Cetner explains as we talk about the relatability of Nigel (the film and the real-life story). This is where this animated tribute to the now departed Nigel differs, but what it shares with the true tale is they both paint a picture of love in a hopeless situation. Where the real-life story of Nigel and his devotion to his inanimate mate, saw an island populated with dummy birds in the hope of attracting a colony to settle there, the stationary seabirds in Cetner’s story are placed there by a mysterious walrus-creature with strange intentions. “My favourite stories include the tales of: Thomas the Goose, the blind goose that became an LGBT icon or Petra the Swan that fell in love with a pedalo boat.” “I tend to read a lot of weird articles about animals and especially birds”, the director reveals as we discuss her nine-minute hand-drawn animation. After reading a news story titled ‘Nigel the lonely gannet dies as he lived, surrounded by concrete birds’, RCA student Natasza Cetner discovered the focus of her grad film – the real-life story of a lonely seabird living out his life on an island inhabited by replica birds. ![]() ![]() A well-constructed headline is a wonderful thing, they can grab your attention, make you laugh and apparently even inspire a short film.
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