Celebrate our nation’s 244th birthday by joining Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky) for a 7pm showing of Rebirth of a Nation - his provocative "Remix" of D.W. Griffith’s infamous 1915 silent film “Birth of a Nation” about the Civil War and Reconstruction. It depicted black men as ignorant and aggressive toward women, while portraying the Ku Klux Klan as heroic. The original KKK had disbanded by 1870, but Griffith’s movie inspired a second KKK to be formed in 1915. Rebirth of a Nation is a “DJ mix applied to cinema'“ which deconstructs one of the most influential and inflammatory movies of all time.
DJ Spooky, whose career started as a deejay, is a composer, writer, and multimedia artist whose work blends many genres. He has collaborated with major recording artists including Metallica, Chuck D, Steve Reich, and Yoko Ono. His work has appeared in the Whitney Biennial survey of contemporary American art, The Venice Biennial for Architecture, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Kunsthalle in Vienna, and many other galleries.