Weed Killer

2017
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 16 mins
|49 Seconds
Colour,
Sound: Stereo
Ratio: 16:9
Available Format/s: HD Digital file
Original Format: 4K Video

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Inspired by artist-writer Catherine Lord’s memoir The Summer of Her Baldness (2004), a moving and irreverent account of the author’s experience of cancer. At the heart of the video is a monologue in which a performer reflects upon the chemically-induced devastation of chemotherapy. This monologue is intertwined with comparatively otherworldly sequences including choreographic gestures shot with high-definition thermal imaging. Weed Killer suggests a complex relationship to one’s own suffering and draws into focus the fine line between alternately poisonous and curative substances.

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