Backwards Birth of a Nation

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.

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Movie
Episodes
1
Episode Duration
13 mins
Status
Finished
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Type
Movie
Format
Movie
Episodes
1
Episode Duration
13 mins
Status
Finished
Start Date
Aug 13, 2000
Season
2000
Average Score
90%
Mean Score
90%
Ratings
1
Popularity
1
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0
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0
Country
United States

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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.

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Japanese

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