Backwards Birth of a Nation (2000)

Backwards Birth of a Nation is a reediting of DW Griffiths 187minute film Birth of a Nation 1915 into a pulsating 13minute 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