Birth of a Nation

Movie

3 Min

N/R
Overview:
This three-channel video installation by James Benning shows three scenes from David Wark Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915). The two-minute-long screen arrangement of imperceptibly moving images alludes to the beginning of racism. The three screens each show a solider in the American Civil War, black slaves picking cotton in the field, and imposing KKK.
Directors:
James Benning
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Genres:
Documentary
Tags:
installation
reinterpretation