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.
Director: Dana Claxton
Runtime: 12 min
Release Date: January 1, 1993
Music: Russell Wallace
Editing: Dana Claxton
Production: Western Front
Country: Canada
Language: No Language
Original Language: en
Keywords
woman director, short film, experimental
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Frequently Asked Questions
- What is Tree of Consumption about?
- 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.
- Who directed Tree of Consumption?
- Tree of Consumption was directed by Dana Claxton.
- How long is Tree of Consumption?
- Tree of Consumption has a runtime of 12m (12 minutes).
- Where was Tree of Consumption produced?
- Tree of Consumption was produced in Canada.