Here you are before the trees

Here you are before the trees — Plot

“In a single day, how many really nonsignifying fields do we cross? Very few, sometimes none. Here I am, before the sea; it is true that it bears no message."–Roland Barthes, Mythologies. Here you are before the trees traverses Indigenous presence in the Hudson River Valley, Wisconsin, and the areas in-between. Presented in three channels, each screen focuses on different homelands and their complex relationships with history, landscape, power and institutional means of oppression.

• Release date
• January 1, 2020
• Runtime
• 13 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Sky Hopinka