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BIRD SHIT

By | January 2014

2014 SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS SELECTION! Archeologists will be the first to tell you that the best way to get a good idea about what a civilization was like is to go through their garbage. Zoologists, likewise, will tell you that the best way to get to know an animal is to look through their fecal matter…

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