ReBirth of a Nation

(Paul D. Miller, 2008).
DJ Spooky’s remix of D.W. Griffith’s racist diatribe is at once an exorcism and a perverse tribute to Griffith’s filmmaking genius. No matter how the original is overlaid, diagrammed, or reshuffled, its power as film narrative keeps peeking through.

Mon., June 22, 7 p.m., 2009