Lay Claim to an Island
- Media type
- Film
Lay Claim to an Island · Lay Claim to an Island · MOVIE
2009
About this title
Texts from the 1969 American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and letters from supporters propel an exploration of political yearning, emancipatory architecture and failed utopias. What does it mean to claim land that has more value as a symbol than as a potential home? And how does that symbol function beyond the boundaries of its geographic limits?