Tree of Consumption (1993): reparto, argumento y streaming

Released in 1993, Tree of Consumption is a notable film directed by Dana Claxton, running about 12 minutes.

What it’s 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.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Tree of Consumption page.