Quote:
"Birds at Sunrise is a film I started when I came back to Toronto [after living in New York]. I would get up about 4 a.m. and shoot birds in the window, all over this little tree, and on the ground. I sometimes used rolled-up papers to make these strange irises, and I made other irises out of paper and cardboard. I think I put a scratch in some of the original. It was the life of birds at the window when dawn's coming and the light is changing. It is still [in 1981] just sitting there. It's not finished."
-- Joyce Wieland

Source:
Rabinovitz, Lauren. "An Interview with Joyce Wieland." Afterimage (May 1981). (p. 11)