David Wojnarowicz, Evolution, 1987

Narrator: A monkey in a threadbare red suit strides across the canvas. Based on a similar monkey that Wojnarowicz filmed collecting coins at a circus in Mexico, he seems entirely too human in his purposeful but downtrodden stance. If this monkey has evolved from a natural to a civilized state, it has not been to his benefit.

David Breslin: He was really trying to think hard about what are the relationships between the natural world and the made world.

Narrator: David Breslin.

David Breslin: And this was very interesting to him because he didn't necessarily want to forget about the mark that humankind had made on the planet, but he wanted us not to forget that a lot of those marks were marks that were damaging.