To Pick a Flower (2021)
Shireen Seno’s video essay explores the transformation and commodification of nature through archival photographs from the American colonial occupation of the Philippines in the first half of the 20th century. These images testify to what the voiceover calls “the sticky relationship between humans and nature and their entanglements with empire”—an ambivalent dependence on natural resources that drives the colonial project and implicates photography, with its concurrent processes of preservation, transmutation, and destruction.
Director: Shireen Seno
Runtime: 17 min
Release Date: September 7, 2021
Country: Japan, Philippines
Language: English
Original Language: en
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- What is To Pick a Flower about?
- Shireen Seno’s video essay explores the transformation and commodification of nature through archival photographs from the American colonial occupation of the Philippines in the first half of the 20th century. These images testify to what the voiceover calls “the sticky relationship between humans and nature and their entanglements with empire”—an ambivalent dependence on natural resources that drives the colonial project and implicates photography, with its concurrent processes of preservation, transmutation, and destruction.
- Who directed To Pick a Flower?
- To Pick a Flower was directed by Shireen Seno.
- How long is To Pick a Flower?
- To Pick a Flower has a runtime of 17m (17 minutes).
- Where was To Pick a Flower produced?
- To Pick a Flower was produced in Japan, Philippines.