Tending the Orchard

Tending the Orchard (2023) 7 minutes 8 seconds Digital video

Co-directed by Katherine Agard and Bill Basquin

The directors find that a collaboration around the orchard initiated by Bill brings up history, anger, colonial violence, and the chance to feel the closeness of relationship.

This video is a part of an ongoing conversation around the legacies and forms of settler colonialism, including challenging the trope of the non-white person being the subject, rather than the person having the gaze, opinion and directorial input. This conversation is a longer conceptual work that challenges both directors.

World Premiere: Experiments in Cinema April 21, 2023