About this Short Film
We are pleased to present Lynette Loye's short film A Bird Landed On My Head (New Zealand, 2025) as part of the Focus on Ability International Short Film Festival programme. Poised between art and lived experience, the film explores sensory perspective and the varied faces of disability without sensationalism. Themes include cerebral palsy, congenital and intellectual disability, physical disability and wheelchair use. Quiet and attentive in its approach, it offers viewers a chance to reflect on individuality, creativity and accessibility. Recommended for adult audiences, the film sits alongside works that celebrate the achievements and everyday realities of people with disability.
Film Details
Film Transcript
I sit outside. Um, I could see all the birds flying around, flying up and down. [Music] They look cool.
Good. It was good. He... This is on my side of the TV. It's Friday. [Music] This is pick cardboard.
Filmmaker
Lynette Loye is the filmmaker behind this entry. See every Focus on Ability entry from Lynette Loye.
Beautiful work telling your story Lynette I especially enjoyed all the different light and shadows in your film. so clever
A truly unique montage of texture colour and sound. So vibrant and imaginative.
This film is gorgeous -it really captures the elusive creative process I can see the artist transmuting experience into art. Love
Lynette I love the way you tell your precious family memory in such a poetic way using your art story and birdsounds with gaps of silence along the way