Tree of Consumption (1993)

Dana Claxton uses low-grade video equipment to create degraded images that correlate the treatment of the earth with the treatment of women’s bodies. A figure stands enmeshed in cutting barbed wire among ravaged forests and chopped tree stumps. Grainy black-and-white images have been electronically ripped, cut and torn in post-production while repeated images of the artist’s open-mouth scream silently against a volatile red sky. A video work from the early 1990s continues to resonate in our contemporary moment—and with decades of missing and murdered Indigenous women across exploited lands.

Released Jan. 1, 1993 12 min None+

Keywords: tmdb.woman-director, tmdb.short-film, tmdb.experimental

Production Companies: Western Front

Country: Canada
Production Country: Canada
Languages: No Language, English