Birds is a short digital choreographic piece imagined thought directed by John Degois. With this piece he tries to transpose live performance into film. He thus chooses to make a sequence shot in order to keep the notion of "live", slow motion to allow the spectator to have time to watch where he wants. He also breaks the perspective by not necessarily centering the main action in the middle of the image. Against a background of melancholy, Birds evokes a time when the question of freedom did not arise. About John Degois is a choreographer and dancer from the hip-hop scene. For the past 25 years, he has spent his life between the stage and the dance studio. For the past few years - in parallel with his company's projects - he has been collaborating with many directors from different backgrounds to create short dance films together. It was Dominique Palombo who first gave him the opportunity to work with them. Then he meets B. Vacarisas and Thomas Siemieniec with whom they co-founded the collective D.P.M (Dance Per Minute). With them the project of short, danced films goes further to take the form of what he calls "Choreographic Vignettes". One of their productions, Tango sous la table, earned him a nomination for the World Of Dance in the "Best International Choreographer" category. Until now, all these projects he signs as a dancer and/or choreographer and/or author.

It is in March 2020, then stuck between the 4 walls of his home, the live performance at a complete stop, that he imagines the creation of a choreographic piece designed exclusively for the camera. A hybrid and experimental artistic object where dance creation and film meet. He then made his very first film entitled Birds. This concept, which he calls "Digital Choreographic Piece", consists in transposing live theater into video, in finding how to move the codes of theater to put them into images. Birds has been selected for numerous national and international festivals, such as the Contis Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz | Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles | 10361 West Pico Blvd. | Los Angeles, CA 90064 T: 310 286 0553 | www.trk.us.com Film Festival. It was also awarded at the Côté Court festival in Pantin in the Essai / Art vidéo category and at the ReelHeart International Film and Screenplay in Toronto in the Best Dance Film Competition category.

John Degois is currently writing a second opus that he hopes to start in 2022.