Dj Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation at the Herodian
Theater, Acropolis, Athens Greece as a part of the Hellinic Festival
of Athens
5/24/05 more> |
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 the original. Thus Rebirth
of a Nation DJ Spooky's Rebirth
of a Nation has been touring for several years and
has drawn acclaim around the world. From the Herod Atticus Theater
at the base of the Acropolis in Greece, to the London IMAX - Europe's
largest movie screen - Dj Spooky has presented the remix as an engagement
with film, music, and contemporary art. He likes to think of it
as "film as found object" in the same sense that artists
such as Marcel Duchamp, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, and David Hammons,
amongst many others, have fostered creative investigations into
the idea of found objects, cinema, and "appropriation art."
The DVD of the project will be released in November 2008 by
Starz Media.
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