Tree of Consumption

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Dana Claxton
Editing	Editor	Dana Claxton
Sound	Music	Russell Wallace
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Kate Smith
Department	Role	Name

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