2013 | United States | Documentary

Orchid Show

  • 14 mins
  • Director | A.K. Burns
  • Writer | A.K. Burns
  • Producer | A.K. Burns

STATUS: Released

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A video work that documents the annual orchid show at the New York Botanic Garden, Orchid Show critically observes notions of spectacle, gender and beauty as a query into the staging and imaging of nature. For the audio, the sounds of the garden fold into a classical composition for piano, Kaleidoscopic Changes on an Original Theme, Ending with a Fugue (1924) by Ruth Crawford Seeger, one of the few celebrated female composers of the early 20th century.

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