FUCK TREE

2017
Country: Germany, Germany
Duration: 8 mins
|35 Seconds
Colour,
Sound: Stereo
Ratio: 16:9
Available Format/s: HD Video / / / HD Digital file
Original Format: Super 8 film

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During a three month residency serving as the Goethe- Institut at LUX Artist in Residence, Liz Rosenfeld created a new filmic work entitled, FUCK TREE. After spending time in LUX film archive, Rosenfeld came across Luther Price’s film, SODOM (1989.) At the time of its completion, SODOM was questioned by AIDS activists and conservatives of it’s time for its depiction of the AIDS Crisis and reflections of ‘pre- AIDS’ gay culture. After extensive research into the history, methodology and imagery of SODOM, Rosenfeld created FUCK TREE, a portrait of an infamous tree which holds space for cruisers in London’s Hampstead Heath. Inspired by the various ways in which Price treated the emulsion of his film, Rosenfeld buried parts of the original film stock in the LUX garden and soaked it in her own cum to erode the image. Reflecting on questions relating to queer historical public space and shifting ecologies, Rosenfeld looks at queer dystopia, a positive embrace of apocalypse, invisible genocide, and queer life after queer death. FUCK TREE was created as a companion piece to SODOM, specifying that it can only ever be screened publicly alongside Luther Price’s film.

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