When the forest of Notre-Dame caught fire, Lola Raban-Oliva and Jean Rene Etienne were at home, just two kilometers away. Each had their own camera, their own zoom lens. From their window, it became almost possible to imagine the perspective of birds. It was no longer Notre-Dame burning, nor even a cathedral. Not a fire, but a vast disruption of the aerial space. A thick, blazing, chaotic convective column rose above the heart of Paris. Les oiseaux brings together 97 screenshots taken from the footage they captured that evening.