A double screening presented by the National Museum of the Aftermath.
This summer, the National Museum of the Aftermath is presenting a four night film screening series. Join us for the first screening of the season, featuring Cauleen Smith's Songs for Earth and Folk (2013) and Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames (1983).
Songs for Earth and Folk
11m
Made in 2013, this short by Cauleen Smith is composed entirely of 16 mm and Super 8 found footage and is structured like a blues song, with a live-improvised electro-organic soundtrack created by Chicago-based band the Eternals. Earth sings a melancholic tale of disappointment. Folk fail to listen until it鈥檚 too late. We End.
Born in Flames
80m
A blistering rallying cry issued loud, clear, and unapologetically queer, Lizzie Borden鈥檚 explosive postpunk provocation is a DIY fantasia of female rebellion set in America ten years after a revolution that supposedly transformed the country into a democratic socialist utopia. In reality, racism, sexism, and economic inequality are as virulent as ever, and a band of radicals鈥攍ed by Black, lesbian, and working-class women鈥攋oin forces to fight back. Told through a furiously fractured, kinetically edited flurry of television news broadcasts, pirate radio transmissions, agitprop, and protests shot guerrilla-style on the streets of New York City, Born in Flames is a shock wave of feminist futurism that鈥檚 both an essential document of its time and radically ahead of it.
This series is free and no registration required, seating is first come first served.
Join us for the upcoming screenings in the series: