Tree of Consumption poster

Tree of Consumption

0.0(0)199312m1

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.

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  • woman director
  • short film
  • experimental

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Director

Dana Claxton

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Canada

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  • CanadaCA

    • Premiere1 Jan 1993

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Tree of Consumption was released on 1 January 1993.

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