Birth of a Nation Poster

Birth of a Nation

Release Date
2018-05-04
Runtime
0h 3m
Status
Released
Rating
N/A
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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.