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How to rust : a postindustrial fable / a film by Julia Yezbick.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dabls, Olayami.
- Installations (Art)--Michigan--Detroit.
- Installations (Art).
- African American artists--Michigan--Detroit.
- African American artists.
- African diaspora in art.
- Michigan--Detroit.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (25 minutes)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Cinema Guild, [2016]
- System Details:
- digital
- Summary:
- A postindustrial fable told in iron, rocks, and wood. Detroit artist Olayami Dabls' installation "Iron Teaching Rocks How to Rust" is a metaphor for the forced assimilation of Africans to European culture and language. Here Dabls' bricolage of the postindustrial landscape becomes a commentary on the half-life of Fordism, where the relationship between cultural production, history, and place is recast, revealing larger truths about how we mythologize a former glory and shape an imagined future
- Participant:
- Olayami Dabls ; narrator, Julia Yezbick.
- Credits:
- Video cameras, Julia Yezbick, Rachel Yezbick ; super 8mm, Ben Gaydos, Julia Yezbick ; editing, Julia Yezbick ; drums, Efe Bes.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on July 11, 2023).
- "Produced in The Film Studio Center, Harvard University, 2011-2016."
- ISBN:
- 0781515831
- 9780781515832
- OCLC:
- 1041191723
- Publisher Number:
- 2576 Cinema Guild
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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