Video

Apple Grown in Wind Tunnel

Steven Matheson

2000, 26:00 minutes, B&W, English

TAPECODE 072.02

This absurdist, microscopic film noir follows the activities of an underground network of ill people, desperate to create alternative methods of self-care in a world where natural resources are disappearing. While examining the meaning of health, disease, and well-being in post-industrial culture, "Apple" imagines the development of a culture at the margins, linked by illicit radio broadcasts, toxic waste sites, the highway, and ultimately by the overwhelming desire to find a cure.

"To the immune system in the 21st century, here's a sublime video elegy; a tale of illness, and grass-roots conjuring against the contemporary malaise. This riveting toxic-road-movie seeps and slouches forward in search of a cure." - Craig Baldwin

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Critical Writing

Curatorial Incubator v. 13: The Job of Life
by Lisa Steele. Toronto: Vtape, 2016.
Introduction: Experiments in Documentary
by Lucas Hilderbrand. Millennium Film Journal, 2009, no. 51.
Make the Medicine Go Down: Steven Matheson's "Apple Grown in Wind...
by Jim Supanick. Millennium Film Journal, 2006, no. 45/46.