To Pick a Flower
2021, English. Directed by Shireen Seno.
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.
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- 0h 17m
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- 7 September 2021
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If you liked To Pick a Flower, try Koyaanisqatsi, Naqoyqatsi, Powaqqatsi.
Who directed To Pick a Flower?
To Pick a Flower (2021) was directed by Shireen Seno.