A film by Matthew Burdis, written by Rachel Chanter
Hinter: An Apocalypse is a project inspired by the landscape and history, both ancient and recent, of the area surrounding Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Questioning the nature of enclosure and land ownership, the piece traces a common thread of self-destruction from the colonial project, stretching back to the Roman Empire, to the acts of ecological vandalism which take place on both large and small scales in the present day.
Burdis and Chanter visited the Sycamore Gap, next to Hadrian’s Wall, together on September 24th 2023: just four days before the famous Sycamore Gap tree was felled. The felling of the tree made nationwide news and opened up a conversation about the nature of the crime that had been committed, and against whom, raising issues of ownership, ecocide, and the legal status of the natural world.
