Yanqui WALKER and the OPTICAL REVOLUTION

This film explores a nowobscure American expansionist William Walker who through military force and coercion became president of Nicaragua in 1856 Walker was one of many expansionists who believed it was Americas Manifest Destiny to conquer all of the Americas and who engaged in border raids in Canada Mexico the Caribbean and Central America Filmmaker Kathryn Ramey blends found footage documentary photography ethnographic inquiry and personal travelogue with experimental film techniques such as handprocessing optical printing and timelapse to detour and derail the various approaches to historymaking that have been applied to this story