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It’s been a while since late one autumn afternoon in 1896 Georges Méliès was filming a late afternoon Paris crowd caught in the ebb and flow of the city’s traffic. Méliès was in the process of filming an omnibus as it came out of a tunnel, and his camera jammed.
- DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of a Nation
Conceived as a reimagining of director D.W. Griffith’s...
- DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of a Nation
Conceived as a reimagining of director D.W. Griffith’s infamously racist 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation, DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of a Nation is a controversial and culturally significant project that examines how “…exploitation and political corruption still haunt the world to this day, but in radically different forms.”.
DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of a Nation is a film project based on a remix of D.W. Griffith’s infamous 1915 film Birth of a Nation. The original film was based on a novel and theater play by Thomas Dixon entitled The Clansman – essentially what DJ Spooky is doing is applying dj technique to cinema in a way that parallels, deconstructs and remixes ...
Jun 20, 2016 · Rebirth of a Nation was his first large-scale multimedia performance piece, which has been performed more than 50 times in venues around the world, from the Sydney Festival to the Herod...
Aug 28, 2015 · Conceived as a remix and reimagination of director D.W. Griffith’s infamously racist 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation, Rebirth of a Nation, recorded with Kronos Quartet, is a controversial and culturally significant project that examines how “…exploitation and political corruption still haunt the world to this day, but in radically ...
Aug 10, 2015 · Released in its entirety for the first time as a two-disc package, DJ Spooky's epic Rebirth of a Nation tackles the inexorably intertwined issues of race, politics, pop culture and...
Sep 16, 2015 · Rebirth of a Nation is Spooky applying his DJ skills to D.W. Griffith’s notorious film The Birth of a Nation by manipulating how the story unfolds. If a song can be remixed,...
