CIVIL WAR SURVEILLANCE POEMS (Part 1)
2019•15m•Released
Documentary
"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.
Director
Mitch McCabe
Languages
English
Studio
Corporation of Yaddo
Production
Company
Corporation of Yaddo
Company
MacDowell Colony
Company
iPark Foundation
Company
SPACE Gallery
Company
Purchase College Foundation
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