One man. An army of lasers. Exploding fake turtles. Desert warfare has never been this weird.
Conservation biologist Tim Shields sees urgency in the field and finds that traditional conservation practices are lacking when it comes to saving desert tortoise populations from ravens. He goes rogue, employing an arsenal of lasers, exploding model turtles, drones and desert rovers as a means of protecting the tortoise's dwindling numbers.
Direction
Packs a feature's worth of personality into 17 minutes.
Practical Effects
Those exploding turtle prototypes? Actually built. Actually deployed.
Director
Brett Marty
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ravens killing tortoises is a real phenomenon — they've learned to flip and consume juveniles, which traditional conservation completely failed to address for decades.
The film quietly asks: at what point does 'unconventional' conservation become performance? Tim's methods walk that razor's edge.
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