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The Infernal Grove

Emily Vey Duke, Cooper Battersby

US
2020
Experimental
7’
OFe
Focus

We watch plants blooming, withering and disintegrating in time-lapse mode – a disturbingly beautiful staging of the process of decay. The voiceover feeds us disquieting information on the critical infection process.

»The story is: we love the thing, we take the thing and move it to a different place, so it will be closer to us and we can look at it, and then we kill it. We have made a movie of its death, so we can watch it again and again, faster, slower, backwards.«

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Emily Vey Duke, Cooper Battersby

Portrait of Emily Vey Duke

Emily Vey Duke

Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke have been working collaboratively since June 1994. Their work has been broadcast and exhibited all around the world. They are currently teaching at Syracuse University in Central New York. In 2010 they were shortlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award. 2012 a book was published about their work, titled The Beauty is Relentless.


Films by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born 2019 | Dear Lorde 2015 | Here Is Everything 2013 | Lesser Apes 2013 | Beauty Plus Pity 2009 | Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure 2006 | Bad Ideas for Paradise 2001

Portrait of Cooper Battersby

Cooper Battersby

Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke have been working collaboratively since June 1994. Their work has been broadcast and exhibited all around the world. They are currently teaching at Syracuse University in Central New York. In 2010 they were shortlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award. 2012 a book was published about their work, titled The Beauty is Relentless.


Films by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby

You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born 2019 | Dear Lorde 2015 | Here Is Everything 2013 | Lesser Apes 2013 | Beauty Plus Pity 2009 | Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure 2006 | Bad Ideas for Paradise 2001