october, 2024
Event Details
DJ Spooky’s "Rebirth of a Nation" is a video project based on a remix of D.W. Griffith’s infamous 1915 film "Birth of a Nation". The
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Event Details
DJ Spooky’s “Rebirth of a Nation” is a video project based on a remix of D.W. Griffith’s infamous 1915 film “Birth of a Nation”. The original film was based on a novel and theater play by Thomas Dixon entitled The Clansman. American turntablist, record producer, philosopher, and author DJ Spooky applies dj technique to cinema in a way that parallels, deconstructs and remixes the original.
An epic about the American Civil War (1861–65) and the Reconstruction era that followed, landmark silent film “The Birth of a Nation” (1915), has long been hailed for its technical and dramatic innovations but condemned for the racism inherent in the script and its positive portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
“The Birth of a Nation” was the first blockbuster Hollywood hit. It was the longest and most-profitable film then produced and the most artistically advanced film of its day. It secured both the future of feature-length films and the reception of film as a serious medium.
Free Entrance.
English language
English language
Time
(Wednesday) 7:30 pm
