Description: little nuggets
One of the final scenes in the Roy Andersson film, A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) , uses visual metaphor to collapse history into a sharp context that criticizes business, colonialism, and callous indifference. The film, the last in a trilogy, in Andersson’s words - on “what it’s like to be human” ( Dagliden 2014 ), repeatedly explores the concept of how we treat each other. It is filmed in a series of vignettes, with a style that has come to be associated with his films: an anchore
Fig 1. The laboratory worker and the chimp.
It is important to explain that the plot of the film does not follow the typical arc of most narratives. A Pigeon Sat On a Branch is more a collection of stand alone stories which at times spill into each other, while at others, are related only by their themes and subject matter. If one did not look closely, one might miss the overly touchy dance instructor and her student, from an earlier scene, in an argument, through a window, in the background of an otherwise unrelated scene about a man who’s misplaced