"CIVIL WAR SURVEILLANCE POEMS (Part 1)" is the first installment in a five-part project of experimental and hybrid-form short films contemplating a second American civil war via lyrical nonfiction, mixing call-in radio, twenty years of verité footage from the filmmaker's archive, and robots. Conceptually speculating from sixteen years in the future (and a protracted civil war), the project is partly nostalgic political travelogue, partly a quest to mine the archive for what went wrong, and part prewar surveillance records, the project deconstructs and builds to a clashing ideology, culminating in an installation of sound sculpture, four-walled video and artifacts.
Genre: Documentary
Stars:
Crew: Mitch McCabe (Director), Mitch McCabe (Editor), Kevin T. Allen (Sound Designer), Kevin T. Allen (Sound Mixer), Michael Taylor (Consulting Editor), Amy Wesson (Other)
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studio: Corporation of Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, iPark Foundation, SPACE Gallery, Purchase College Foundation
Runtime: 15 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Apr 19, 2019
IMDb: 10
