Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation(2018)

05/04/2018 (US)Documentary0h 3m
NR

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.

James Benning

Director