Assistant Professor Mitch McCabe's film Civil War Surveillance Poems (Part 1) has been selected for Camden International Film Festival, where it is currently screening in the virtual portion of the festival through October 12. Assistant Professor Mitch McCabe's film Civil War Surveillance Poems (Part 1) has been selected for Camden International Film Festival, where it is currently screening in the virtual portion of the festival through October 12.
Photographed, edited, produced and directed by Professor McCabe, the film screens in "Latitudes," a program of short nonfiction films meditating on the future. A speculative nonfiction film contemplating a second civil war in the United States through twenty years of the filmmaker's archive and call-in radio, the film is the first installment of a five-part feature film in progress. Currently the project is following political and electoral events as they unfold in the state of Michigan.
In addition, Civil War Surveillance Poems (Part 1) will screen in ""New Labor Movements"" as part of filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien's LESSONS OF THE HOUR exhibit at the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco, and in the museum's virtual program. Opening October 14 , Isaac Julien's Lessons of the Hour is a ten-screen installation offering an immersive, meditative portrait of Frederick Douglass. Positing the question of “What is America today?" to navigate the philosophical, psychological, and emotional landscapes of those living in the aftermath of slavery’s indirect, proximal effects, curator Leila Weefur programmed New Labor Movements, which includes work by Christopher Harris, Garrett Bradley, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Kevin Jerome Everson, Charlotte Brathwaite and more. As a sensory depiction of geographic divides of religion, class and race in America over the last 20 years, Professor McCabe's short film Civil War Surveillance Poems- Part 1 is included in this film dialogue.
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