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Purge This Land

Original title: Purge This Land
Year: 2017
Running time: 80 min.
Country: United States
Director: Lee Anne Schmitt
Cast: Documentary
Genre: Documentary | Racism. Historical
Synopsis: PURGE THIS LAND is an essay film centered around the legacy of the radical abolitionist John Brown. The title is taken from John Brown’s letter of 1859: “I am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.” The history of racism and slavery in modern America is retold in a film, which spans from the 1850’s to present-day USA and in the systemic violence that black Americans are still subjected to. John Brown – a white, militant activist – was sentenced to death in 1859 for a failed attempt to start an armed revolution. His story is a prism, through which the contemporary artist Lee Anne Schmitt’s beautiful and thought-provoking film takes a clear and sober look at the dark side of American history. The past is never dead, it is not even the past, as Faulkner wrote.

Awards: 2017: Los Angeles Film Critics: Best Independent/Experimental Film and Video Award

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Purge This Land

2017

Lee Anne Schmitt