Birth of a Nation

• Movies
• 2018-05-04
• EN
• Released
• 0h 3m
• Documentary

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Production

James Benning

Storyline

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.