Rosalinda Conti:

Uccellini, in no particular order

Uccellini (Little Birds)

Playwright Rosalinda Conti shares the films, books, music, and fears that found their way into Uccellini (Little Birds), in no particular order.

In no particular order, here are a few things that helped birds take flight.

Bær, a cello piece by Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, echoing a haunting sense of the past.

Without a doubt, the crystal-clear voice of Rosemary Standley singing Birds on a Wire.

Summer Day, a play by Jon Fosse I saw ages ago, directed by Valerio Binasco – what stuck with me was how everyone kept gazing out the window.

Ari Aster’s horror films, Hereditary and Midsommar.

The French series Les Revenants, for its take on living side by side with ghosts.

For a bit of bird wisdom, The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman.

A story by Margaret Atwood, Death by Landscape.

The works and silences of Harold Pinter and Raymond Carver.

And all the stories I’ve forgotten (family ones included) – stories of brothers drifting apart, coming close, sharing without really sharing, loving without loving.

The fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, and the way they haunt us because they’re part of who we are.