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Alert Don Imus: Rutgers Remixes “Birth Of A Nation”
April 13th, 2007OK, if I wasn’t in the throes of covering the Popped! festival, I would be totally going to this.
1915’s Birth of a Nation was the film that simultaneously launched the modern movie industry and gave the Ku Klux Klan a foothold in the 20th Century.
Friday night is the Philly premiere of Rebirth of a Nation, a film project that DJ Spooky calls “a digital exorcism” — taking the original 1915 footage and doing a live 3-screen video/audio remix that turns the tables on the original.
It all goes down this Friday night 4/13 at the Gordon Theater on the Rutgers-Camden campus.
DJ Spooky will be there at 6pm for a FREE roundtable discussion with the RU-C departments of film and African-American studies.
Photos and video:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/54642149_c8fdec363e.jpg?v=0
http://www.gordontheater.com/i/press/Spooky_imax_1.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VCwXF8nzx4