Close-up of a hex and counter Civil War board gamealr

The Annotated Field Guide of Ulysses S. Grant

Streaming
Directed by Jim Finn.
US, 2020, 16mm transferred to digital video, color, 61 min.

Traversing time, space and ideology, Finn overlays the trajectory of the Civil War onto—sometimes oblivious—contemporary sites of notorious bloodshed, punctuated not by explosions and reenactment, but by the camera’s deadpan observations and the animated actions of war boardgames, trading cards and various ephemera—all in the grainy haze of 16mm. Colleen Burke’s enterprising, bewitching soundtrack helps lead the way across the States through swamp and suburb, passing by the remaining memorial markers, monuments, ruins and museums—in various states of repair—as Finn relates absorbing tales of Grant and a supporting cast of complicated characters attempting to either suppress or advance the brutal “white supremacist rebellion” that cost thousands of lives and has yet to be exorcised from the soil or the soul of America. – BG

Please visit watchhfa.eventive.org to reserve tickets and view the film.

Part of program

Read more

Devour the Land: Cinema, landscape, history.

Current and upcoming programs

Read more

Remapping Latin American Cinema: Chilean Film/Video 1963 – 2013

Read more

Andrés Di Tella – Archives and Memory

Read more

Alice Diop’s Souvenirs of Lost Time

Read more

The McMillan-Stewart Fellowship: Kivu Ruhorahoza

Read more

Med Hondo and the Indocile Image

Read more

Still Life With Hong Sangsoo

Read more

Late Kiarostami