Film

Cutting

2004 · 6m

This narrative restraint appears perhaps most clearly in Wangechi Mutu’s video Cutting, in which the artist enters the frame and proceeds to rhythmically hack away at a log in an expansive desert landscape before finally laying down her machete and leaving the frame.

• Wangechi MutuDirector

Release date

January 1, 2004

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

6m

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