Baye & Asa - Second Seed, 15:44
New York, New York, 2020
Second Seed is a short film responding to D.W. Griffith’s 1915 silent film 'The Birth of a Nation'. Griffith's film is a veneration of the KKK, painting the Klan as saviors of a white race in danger as American culture and politics begin to shift after the Civil War. It highlights a fundamental White supremacist delusion that continues to plague the USA: that White people are inherently superior, and that they are politically and culturally under attack. Second Seed grapples with this White delusion.
Cast:
AJ Tasley Parr
Amadi Baye Washington
Marla Phelan
Myssi Robinson
Sam Asa Pratt
Directed & Choreographed by: Baye & Asa
Edited by : Baye & Asa
Production & Music by: Jack Grabow
Cinematographer, Camera Operator: Alan Jensen
First Assistant Camera: Stacey Jewell
Technical Director: David Bull