Watching The Natural History of the Chicken with author Rebecca van Laer
We talk about chicken representation in the PBS documentary The Natural History of Chickens, the American story of the bird, and what it's like to live with five chickens.
Other than Chicken Run, it’s rare to see a chicken as the center of a film. But Rebecca and I wanted to share a common film to ground our conversation and she suggested us revisiting The Natural History of Chickens by Mark Lewis.
The film is intentional in its framing to center people whose lives are intertwi…
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