CIVIL WAR SURVEILLANCE POEMS (Part 1) (2019)

"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.

• Release Date: 2019-04-19
• Runtime: 0h 15min
• Production Company: Corporation of Yaddo
• Production Country: United States of America
• Director: Mitch McCabe