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Backwards Birth of a Nation
[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]Calorie Rating: 18
Released: 2000-08-13
Running Time: 13 Minutes
Backwards Birth of a Nation is a re-editing of D.W. Griffith's 187-minute film, Birth of a Nation (1915), into a pulsating 13-minute black and white phantasm. By means of structural strategies of condensation, the frame by frame inversion of black and white, and playing the resulting work from end to beginning, an apparition is brought forth where images of racism float to the surface and are contextualized as a part of the flow of United States history.