Linnaeus and the Terminator Seed (2017)

Is there a deterministic, evolutionary line connecting modern botany to the contemporary transgenic? Bringing together botanical drawings made by European naturalists in Latin America and Southeast Asia, contracts and UN documents on transgenic seeds, as well as depictions of the reproductive systems of flowers and humans, this short film-essay explores the sexual imaginary of botanists such as Carl Linnaeus to consider the post-natural conditions governing current biotechnology, the colonial management of reproduction, as well the representation and indexation of life forms past and present.