Since 2007, Cat Bird Pictures has been creating vivid, iconic and unforgettable digital landscapes for theater, dance, musicals and other live event spectacles.  With a tool kit that includes everything from state of the art digital projectors to repurposed junk TVs, the transporting effects of carefully crafted ambient video to the in-your-face immediacy of live-feed, CBP aims to up the visual ante of every project we’re a part of.

“Worst Whiskey,” an excerpt from Witness Relocation’s INCISION at the Bushwick Starr, December 2010. Projection design + camera operation by Kaz Phillips Safer.

UPCOMING SHOWS!

> UBU ROI by Alfred Jarry, featuring the music of punk band Pere Ubu @ Abrams Art Center, NYC April 2014

Starring Tony Torn and Julie Atlas Muz.  Directed by Dan Safer.

> DAILY LIFE EVERLASTING by Chuck Mee w/ Witness Relocation @ La MAMA, NYC Spring 2015

THE PANIC SHOW (Or, I’m Too Close To This Monster)

Witness Relocation

Le Quartz, Brest FRANCE 2010

Dance New Amsterdam, NYC 2009

DEEP COVER

by Michael Wolk

Gorgeous Entertainment

New York Musical Theater Festival, 2009

HAGGADAH (Or, The Passover Show)

Witness Relocation

La MAMA, E.T.C, NYC 2009

BUS STOP

by William Inges

Ramapo College

Mahwah, NJ  2009

THE BLUE BIRD

by Mikuni Yanaihara

Witness Relocation

CSV Cultural Center, NYC  2009

VICIOUS DOGS ON PREMISES

Witness Relocation

Theatre de Chaillot, Paris FRANCE 2011

A.R.T Cambridge, MA 2010

Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA 2009

Fury Factory, San Francisco, CA 2009

Open Look Fest., St. Petersburg, RUSSIA 2009

Les Subsistances, Lyon, FRANCE 2009

Man.In.Fest, ROMANIA 2009

Bytom & Krakow Fests, POLAND 2009

Ontological Incubator, NYC 2008

TALE I TUNGER (Speaking in Tongues)

by Andrew Bovell

Eklektisk Teater Productions

Theater Krudttønden, Copenhagen DENMARK  2007

"... the single most fun moment of the show was when footage of Yul Brynner as the Pharaoh was manipulated hiphop style... Kaz Phillips, designer of the video and projections deserves a shout out here."  

- NYTHEATRE.COM

FIVE DAYS IN MARCH

by Toshiki Okada

Witness Relocation

La MAMA, E.T.C, NYC 2010

NYC Summer Stage, 2010

I’M GOING TO MAKE A SMALL INCISION BEHIND YOUR EAR TO CHECK AND SEE IF YOU’RE ACTUALLY HUMAN (INCISION)

Witness Relocation

NYC Summerstage, 2012

Dance New Amsterdam, NYC 2012

The Bushwick Starr, NYC 2010

Legs on the Wall, Sydney AUSTRALIA 2010

STATUS UPDATE

by Michael Goldfried

McCarter Theater/ First Stage

The Barrow Group Theater, NYC 2011

HEAVEN ON EARTH

by Chuck L. Mee

Witness Relocation + Collectif ildi! eldi

La MAMA ETC, NYC 2011

Les Subsistances, Lyon FRANCE 2011

“There is such wonderful attention to detail... Kaz Phillips’s use of video is especially noteworthy, as when a man speaks of his experience as a child in the American Dust Bowl.”

-- NYTHEATRE.COM

“Audiovisual anarchy.”

-- NEW YORK MAGAZINE

PAST WORK

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C A T  B I R D  P I C T U R E S

“Powerful”

     - BUST Magazine

“Audiovisual anarchy”

     - New York Magazine

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ETERNIDAY

by Chuck L. Mee

Witness Relocation

La MAMA ETC, NYC 2013

“Rueful, sweet, angry and strange.”

-- TIME OUT NY

M.D. (or, The Whale)

adapted from Herman Melvilles “Moby Dick”

Witness Relocation in conjuction with Theatre Mit and the NYU Abu Dhabi undergrad drama dept.

Manarat al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi UAE, Oct 2013