
Garrett Pruter
In his ongoing work The Birds, 2022, Garrett Pruter revisits Alfred Hitchcock’s classic, painstakingly removing the attacking crows frame by frame. Currently clocking in at almost twenty-seven minutes, Pruter’s cut of the film focuses on key scenes related to the development of Tippi Hedren’s character, Melanie Daniels, an outsider who becomes a target of mass hysteria. The artist leans into the over-the-top acting of Hitchcock’s era, offsetting the tension with humor.
At first, Pruter’s edits appear seamless. In the playground segment, children and adults dive and scream, flapping about as they