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From the polemical 2000 election that sparked the idea of the remix to the subsequent national tour, Rebirth has taken a long journey to return to Harvard, since much of the initial research for the film was done at the on-campus Harvard Film Archive. That it’s appearing here at all is a testament to the allure of Miller’s endeavor, equal parts academic critique and sonic psychedelia, and to the energetic response it’s earning from critics and audiences throughout the country...
Miller was first inspired to remix The Birth of a Nation several years later, after the controversial 2000 presidential election. He noticed that the red and blue states were split along lines, much in the way the Union and Confederate states divided during the Civil...
...film was something to set a tone, about how to portray all sorts of behavior in America,” Miller expounds. “What I’m thinking, you are confronted with people who still hold cliché ideas of women and people of color. The remix foregrounds these kinds of issues...
...video game…It’s pretty much along the same lines. Media literacy is the common denominator, I’m just focusing on the way to connect the dots between all of these disparate situations—I guess you could say my remix is about a kind of visual politics of sound. And that’s the order of the day in our media ecology...
...also sponsors Learning from Performers, a program that brings renowned artists from myriad artistic fields to Harvard, allowing students to participate in a seminar taught by the artist. The upcoming LFP event is on March 11 with multimedia artist DJ Spooky, featuring his film remix project “Rebirth of a Nation...