Sick Birds Die Easy Director's Cut
Dive deeper than ever before with never-before-seen footage in this exclusive cut. Journey into the heart of a drug-fueled jungle madness, where reality blurs and the search for enlightenment becomes
a dangerous obsession.
COMING OCTOBER 1
"Only through searching can
the universe experience itself."
Director Nik Fackler takes audiences along with a motley crew of paranoid drug addicts, conspiracy theorists and an entitled American musician into the heart of Western Africa on a search for enlightenment with the help of iboga, a natural shrub made illegal in the 1960s due to its extreme psychedelic properties. Sick Birds Die Easy reveals the truth of the apocalypse as Fackler and friends search for meaning among drug fueled madness, as the crew heads deeper into the jungle. What initially began as a trip towards enlightenment becomes a desperate attempt at maintaining safety and sanity.
With a mad mix of compellingly hilarious characters, experimental drug use and an array of expertly wielded lo-fi and hi-fi video cameras. Fackler has produced a totally pleasurable and radically complicated film. One that capably explodes the fiction / non-fiction divide with an alarming self-consciouness and ever more surprising degree in sincerity. Delving into mysticism, politics, colonialism and human nature, Sick Birds Die Easy is a mind bending, fantastical social experiment that will leave you questioning your understanding of reality.
Critical Acclaim
Sick Birds Die Easy is a unique and one of a kind joy ride of filmmaking and wonderment that leaves you wanting more of these mad, mad, mad people.
My Year @ The Movies
"Sick Birds Die Easy walks a blurred (and not just from all of the drugs) line between fiction and reality and starts to push the boundary of what “documentary” filmmaking can be."
Shark And Pickle
"A spiritually minded group of druggy filmmakers as they bumble through the jungles of Africa on a Fear & Loathing like quest for a potent flower reputed to hold the cure to addiction."
Society Vernacular
"Sick Birds Die Easy, for all its bizarre self-indulgence and white privilege run amok, is an sanely entertaining head trip."
Cinemablographer
"A lord of the fly adventure, ending with a rude awakening for the west."
Cinemablographer
About the film
Sick Birds Die easy was filmed on location in Gabon, Africa. Fackler gave each cast member (All close friends of the director, but with strikingly opposing personalities) a different kind of camera and set them loose in the jungle. Fackler attempted to guide the resulting chaos with an intent to create a final chapter of the biblical bible, asking the question: after the apocalypse, will humanity return to Eden? As things quickly fell apart, enemies were made between lovers, alcohol and drugs were consumed and what started as an attempt to make fiction, quickly became very real and dangerous for the cast and crew, but inevitably resulted in the answer to the Fackler's question.
Behind The Scenes
