Tending Towards the Horizontal -- Film Description:
"The voice-over text, written and performed by France Daigle, creates three images which recur alternately throughout the film: a bird flapping its wings tirelessly; a figure (man, boy?) who sits on a hay bale, watching the city below; and a woman in a library who reads only what others have left behind. The filmed images are predominantly houses: houses seen in passing, along the horizontal; houses reflecting sky and trees in their windows; houses partially hidden by trees or the shadows they cast; houses and office towers simultaneously pictured in stages of demolition and construction. [...]"
-- Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

Source:
"CFMDC Film Catalogue" Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. http://www.cfmdc.org/.