Christine Kettaneh

Red needles, pill-size holes, dried up lumps of resin, empty cones, and a missing scent are only a few of the aesthetic signs of a dead pine tree. Some native to North America and others to Europe and Asia, the bark beetles have chewed their way through forests and have recently spread worldwide threatening to chomp our last green lung. Healthy trees usually fight off the bark beetles but climate change has been increasingly weakening their defenses signaling an impending forest insect outbreak. This film is my artist response to the bark beetle attack after witnessing the felling of my family’s monumental tree. The film is a process of cognitively and aesthetically reframing the site of tragedy, moving the experience from one frame to another, as a way to a more expanded view of reality.

REVIEWS:

[…] “The Hindwing” takes on inner stability vs. instability in the context of a beetle’s hidden wings and turns it into a commentary not just about our natural world, but about the condition of our own hearts, souls, and minds[…] BRFF 2020 Short Film Review of “The Hindwing” by Kirk S. Fernwood. Read the full review here.

[…] Through its imagery, associative chain of scenes, transitions between the elements and ambiguity of its metaphors, “The Hindwing” is creating a language of its own, which every deciphering opens new doors and points of view. A riddle without an end, it is a film of polarities, of opposing principles, of metamorphosis, death and rebirth… BRFF 2020 Short Film Review of “The Hindwing” by Head Programmer Andrija Jovanovic. Read the full review here.