By Kiša Lala
Production still, HOIST © 2004 Matthew Barney, Photo: Chris Winget
The 14 minute film Hoist by Matthew Barney was a sequence from a longer film DE LAMA LÂMINA, shot in Salvador, Brazil. A ‘Green Man’ is harnessed under a fifty ton defrorestation Caterpillar truck amplifying, in a metaphoric sense, the frailty of nature subject to immense forces of destruction.
Though the film expresses man’s vulnerability against this monstrous assemblage of automated, indiscriminate power, it describes it as an erotic encounter between the man and machine.
HOIST © 2004 Matthew Barney, Photo: Chris Winget (From screengrab)
