To Pick a Flower

To Pick a Flower

希林.施諾Shireen SENO
2021
  • Philippines
17min
  • DCP
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To Pick a Flower

Synopsis

A 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', in the light of the concurrent processes of preservation, transmutation, and destruction.

#Colonial Narratives

Festivals & Awards
2021 New York Film Festival