Spar­row­hawk Bait, 1999

Digit­al video, SD 720 × 576 4:3

01:00 min

Filmed in Grizedale, Cum­bria, UK

Per­formed by Mar­cus Coates

Cam­era and sound by Mar­cus Coates

Pho­to­graphy by Adam Sutherland

Pro­duced by Grizedale Arts

Dead song­birds were tied into Coates’s hair. The birds were re-anim­ated by the move­ment of his head as he ran through the forest. These birds are prey spe­cies of the sparrowhawk.