Lerman Alexandra – Cyland Video Archive https://videoarchive.cyland.org Video Archive Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:54:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.25 The Return of the Return of the Giant Hogweed https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/the-return-of-the-return-of-the-giant-hogweed/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 22:52:00 +0000 https://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=20892 The Return of the Return of the Giant Hogweed, video, 2019, 4 min. The video takes its inspiration from the song “The Return of the Giant Hogweed”, released by the British rock group Genesis in 1971. The song warns of the apocalyptic spread of the poisonous plant Heracleum mantegazzianum (giant hogweed) after it was “captured” … Continue reading "The Return of the Return of the Giant Hogweed"

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The video takes its inspiration from the song “The Return of the Giant Hogweed”, released by the British rock group Genesis in 1971. The song warns of the apocalyptic spread of the poisonous plant Heracleum mantegazzianum (giant hogweed) after it was “captured” in the hills of the Russian Empire and brought to Britain by Victorian botanists. The lyrics of the songs are filled with ironic humor and describe an anthropomorphized plant that is on a mission to destroy the human race. The video “The Return of the Return of the Giant Hogweed” is an updated version of the story told in the Russian language, looking at the Cold War era half a century later from the viewpoint of the giant hogweed itself, telling the story of its fall.

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]]> Tree Time https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/tree-time/ Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:13:03 +0000 http://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=11544 Tree Time imagines a relationship between nature and technology unmediated by human presence. Shot by a drone in the Amazon rainforest the film depicts a point of view as disembodied as the AI-generated voices discussing a series of images of annual tree rings. These natural data-inscriptions record man-made ecological distress into the body of the tree … Continue reading "Tree Time"

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]]> Tree Time imagines a relationship between nature and technology unmediated by human presence. Shot by a drone in the Amazon rainforest the film depicts a point of view as disembodied as the AI-generated voices discussing a series of images of annual tree rings. These natural data-inscriptions record man-made ecological distress into the body of the tree just as humanity uploads the information it deems important for posterity into the cloud.

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