Burying the Ruler

Overview

With Burying the Ruler, Beam extends his critique of colonial domination and the displacement and dehumanization of Indigenous peoples into a new media. The video confronts the failed notion that if something can be measured, weighed, or described rationally, then it can be fully known and thereby contained, emptied of its unknown qualities or its innate magical power. This piece debunks the dominance of Western knowledge as a system for understanding the world.