Animation Treatment:
Burti is a small baby bird who finds himself hatched
into an empty nest bundled beneath a stone out crop on the desert floor. Egg
shells are scattered all around him and the nest. Burti looks around in search
of his mother. But he sees nothing on the flat desert planes except for a
single ironic tumble weed, tumbling on its way. Burti is not a smart bird; he
chases the tumble weed mistaking it for his mother.
Burti’s stomach
rumbles, he is hungry, and right there and then they pass by a small flower.
Burti immediately runs over to drink its nectar, and soon after, spits it all
out. Burti does not like the nectar of this flower, so he turns it down.
But Burti is even hungrier now, fortunately they pass
another lonesome flower, Burti hops over and sniffs the flower, Burti is picky,
he does not like the smell of this flower, and leaves it with a dismissive shrug.
Now Burti is really hungry, and after walking for some time, they come in
contact with another flower, an ugly flower.
Burti is dismayed, how could his dear mother
Tumbleweed think that he would stoop to such meager standards, Burti doesn’t
even give this one a sniff or a taste. They continue onward, but Burti does
need to eat soon or it will all be for nothing, Burti is getting sad, will he
ever find the right flower.
Burti bumps
into something, it’s his mother, and she has stopped. They’re at a standstill
at the base of an enormous cliff, stretching far beyond site to either side.
Burti’s mother can go no further and she is acting weird, roots burst from her
under side and plant themselves into the soil, Burti is taken aback. A single
shoot, sprouts up into the air from the top of Burti’s mother, a small bud at
its end.
It blossoms, into a glorious flower! Burti is amazed,
he is saved; he extends his yet underutilized wings and takes to the air, and
drinks the nectar off the gods from the flower, its perfect. CHOMP, the flower
closes in an instant around the bird, and slowly lowers down into the plant.
End.
