Now Available: Two New Videos by Toney W. Merritt

Posted October 1st, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

The Birds and the Beasts (2025, 4 minutes, color, sound, digital file)

“Another installment of Toney Merritt’s Fragment series, THE BIRDS AND THE BEASTS is a hypnotizing meditation on nature and sounds that combines timelapse footage of the bird feeder with the trail camera footage of the mountain lion shot in real time. Set to a self-composed piece drawn from Merritt’s sound library, THE BIRDS ANDTHE BEASTS’ unique rhythm and two-part structure captures what it means to live in the wilderness through juxtaposing the power and majesty of the cougar with the spirit and freedom of the birds. A fragment of the seemingly mundane reality, the birds and the mountain lion turn into something far more meaningful: a reflection on multispecies relations and our peaceful co-existence with animals.” – Kornelia Boczkowska

8:45 – Fragment # IV (2025, 1.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file)

A brief moment in time