Tim Ridlen is a video artist and scholar. His recent article “If Film is a Language, Can Birds Make Movies?” has been published in the peer-reviewed Journal for Artistic Research. Previous films have been exhibited as part of screening programs at LAXART (Los Angeles), the Academy for Media Arts (Cologne), Renwick Gallery (New York), Roots and Culture (Chicago), and the Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media (Stuttgart). He is also a PhD candidate in the Visual Arts at the University of California San Diego.