Camden International Film Festival

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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 in 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.

  • Year
    2019
  • Runtime
    15 minutes
  • Country
    USA
  • Premiere
    New England Premiere
  • Director
    Mitch McCabe
  • Cinematographer
    Mitch McCabe
  • Editor
    Mitch McCabe