Images of a Tree: Digital Video / Stereo Sound / 3min
Images of a Tree is a brief film about death and the future of cinema. The creation of this film was spurred by the disasterpiece that was Venice 70: Future Reloaded.
As cinema becomes increasingly personal, we must be wary of what exactly our images do. In order for cinema to trudge reluctantly forward into its future phases, it must be acutely aware of and in dialogue with the digital, hand-held, hyper-intermediated present. It must thoroughly acknowledge itself, the screen, and the technology. Meshing this present-day iteration of structural filmmaking with purely intuitive poetics is, in my estimation, the only viable path. The topic of death is therefore incredibly pertinent as it hides in-between the pixels of the everyday.
As much as this film is about the future of cinema, it is just as much grappling with the future of death. The project was shot at the site of where a close friend of mine passed away in a car accident about a year prior. Through both its form and content, the film speaks on the medium of cinema and its relationship to the internet age, the apocalypse, and the different forms of death we are subjected to.
