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Backwards Birth of a Nation

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Overview

Backwards Birth of a Nation is a re-editing of D.W. Griffith's 187-minute film, Birth of a Nation (1915), into a pulsating 13-minute black and white phantasm. By means of structural strategies of condensation, the frame by frame inversion of black and white, and playing the resulting work from end to beginning, an apparition is brought forth where images of racism float to the surface and are contextualized as a part of the flow of United States history.

Details

Status: Released
Release date: August 13, 2000
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Director: Les LeVeque
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0284877