CIVIL WAR SURVEILLANCE POEMS (wip)

(Director, Producer, Camera, Editor) Experimental Nonfiction Feature, (2023-24)

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Civil War Surveillance Poems is a modular project of speculative nonfiction film and installation, which contemplates an impending American civil war via call-in radio, twenty years of verité footage from the filmmaker's archive, and robots. Comprised of documentary, hybrid and computer-generated filmmaking, the project is rooted in a future of protracted civil war. Partly nostalgic political travelogue, partly a quest to mine the archive for what went wrong, and part prewar surveillance records, the project deconstructs our past/future/present moment, building to a clashing ideology and eulogy for a lost country.

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