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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Crew: Dana Claxton (Director), Dana Claxton (Editor), Russell Wallace (Music), Kate Smith (Costume Design)
Country: Canada
Language: No Language
Studio: Western Front
Runtime: 12 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 01, 1993
IMDb: 10
