Birth of a Nation

Name: Birth of a Nation
Genre: Documentary
Released: 04 May 2018
Rating: 0.00

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.

Genre: Documentary
Studio: James Benning
Keyword: installation, reinterpretation
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