
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 BenningRevenue:
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DocumentaryTags:
installation
reinterpretation






