FUCK TREE, 2017

Video Work created while in residence at LUX Moving Image

During a three-month residency serving as the Goethe at LUX Artist in Residence, Rosenfeld created a new filmic work entitled Fuck Tree. After spending time in the LUX film archive, Liz came across Price‘s film, Sodom. At the time of its completion, Sodom was questioned by both the far-left and far-right for its depiction of the AIDS Crisis and its reflections on ‘pre-AIDS’ gay culture. After extensive research into the history, methodology and imagery of Sodom, Rosenfeld decided to create a new film portraying an infamous tree in the cruising area of Hampstead Heath while also reflecting on their own questions relating to shifting ecologies and queer historical public spaces. Taking from Luther Price’s methodologies of eroding film, Rosenfeld buried parts of their original print in the LUX Garden and also soaked it in their own cum.

While in residence at LUX, Liz conducted creative research dealing with questions of queer dystopia, a positive embrace of apocalypse, invisible genocide, and drawing parallels between the way information was publicly disseminated in the early days of the AIDS/ HIV crisis and the current spread of information about climate change and environmental destruction.

This video is not available for viewing online. It is in distribution with LUX Moving Image; if you’re interested in arranging to see the piece you can reach out to me or LUX Moving Image for more information.

This work was created with the support of the London Goethe-Institut and LUX Moving Image, while serving as an artist in residence.
FUCK TREE is distributed by LUX Moving Image: www.lux.org.uk
FUCK TREE is a companion piece to Luther Price’s 1989 film, Sodom. It can only ever be screened publicly alongside it.