CIVIL WAR SURVEILLANCE POEMS (Part 1) (2019)
Overview
"CIVIL WAR SURVEILLANCE POEMS (Part 1)" is the first installment in a five-part project of experimental and hybrid-form short films contemplating a second American civil war via lyrical nonfiction, mixing call-in radio, twenty years of verité footage from the filmmaker's archive, and robots. Conceptually speculating from sixteen years in the future (and a protracted civil war), the project is partly nostalgic political travelogue, partly a quest to mine the archive for what went wrong, and part prewar surveillance records, the project deconstructs and builds to a clashing ideology, culminating in an installation of sound sculpture, four-walled video and artifacts.
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| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 0.254 |
Directed By
Mitch McCabe
Crew
Mitch McCabe
Mitch McCabe
Amy Wesson
Kyra Lyons
Maggie Millian
Kevin T. Allen
Kevin T. Allen
Michael Taylor
Mitch McCabe
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