The Agony of Dying Trees is an experimental visual essay inspired by the prison poems of environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. In Ogoni, Saro-Wiwa laments the violence of extractivism on his homeland, enabled by the unholy alliance of oil corporations and a government blinded by profit.

The essay draws from the memory of what is now known as the Ogoni Nine execution. Saro-Wiwa and eight other members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) were sentenced to death after a shoddy and deeply contested trial that accused them of inciting murder. It also gives commentary on the hanging questions that lingers, even today.