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Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation Online

  • Genres: Documentary
  • Release Date: 04/05/2018
  • Duration : 3 minutes
  • Director: James Benning
  • Production: James Benning
  • Country: United States of America

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.

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