{"id":7618,"date":"2018-02-23T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=7618"},"modified":"2025-01-09T11:01:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T17:01:05","slug":"march-1-lee-anne-schmitt-purge-this-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2018\/02\/23\/march-1-lee-anne-schmitt-purge-this-land\/","title":{"rendered":"March 1 – Lee Anne Schmitt: Purge This Land"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LeeAnne Schmitt, still from Purge This Land, 2017. Image courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just before his execution, abolitionist John Brown wrote, \u201cI am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.\u201d Brown was hung on December 2, 1859, less than two months after he led a raid on a federal armory in an attempt to incite an armed rebellion against slavery. In her new film,\u00a0Purge This Land<\/em>, Los Angeles-based filmmaker Lee Anne Schmitt uses Brown\u2019s legacy to consider the long shadows of slavery and systemic, violent racism on the United States\u2019 psychic and physical landscape. She interweaves shots of rural back roads and urban centers throughout the country, memorializing the sites of Brown\u2019s radicalization alongside those of race riots, police shootings, and other forms of White racial violence and Black disenfranchisement throughout the last 150 years. Set to a score by Jeff Parker that references histories of Black music, the film resists easy resolution, modeling resistance instead.<\/p>\n

2017, USA, DCP, 80 min + discussion<\/em>
\nLee Anne Schmitt and Jeff Parker in person<\/em><\/p>\n

Lee Anne Schmitt\u2019s<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0films and related projects have addressed American exceptionalism, the logic of utility and labor, gestures of kindness and refusal, racial violence, \u201ccowboyism,\u201d trauma and narrative, and the efficacy of solitude. She has exhibited widely at venues that include MoMA, New York; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Roy and Edna Disney\/CalArts Theater, Los Angeles; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and festivals such as Viennale, Austria; Copenhagen International Documentary Festival, Denmark; International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany; International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, Argentina; and Marseille Festival of Documentary Film, France. Schmitt is a recent recipient of both a Graham Foundation Grant and a Creative Capital Award.<\/p>\n

Jeff Parker<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is an American jazz and rock guitarist based in Los Angeles. Parker is best known as an experimental musician, working with avant-garde electronic, rock, and improvisational groups. Parker plays guitar in the post-rock group Tortoise and was a founding member of Isotope 217 and the Chicago Underground Trio in the 1990s and early 2000s. He is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and has worked with George Lewis, Ernest Dawkins, Brian Blade, Joshua Redman, Fred Anderson, and Jason Moran, among many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just before his execution, abolitionist John Brown wrote, \u201cI am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.\u201d Brown was hung on December 2, 1859, less than two months after he led a raid on a federal armory in an attempt to incite an armed […]<\/p>\n

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