Rebirth of a Nation (2008)

DJ Spookys Rebirth of a Nation is a film project based on a remix of DW Griffiths infamous 1915 film Birth of a Nation The original film was based on a novel and theater play by Thomas Dixon entitled The Clansman essentially what Dj Spooky is doing is applying dj technique to cinema in a way that parallels deconstructs and remixes the original Thus Rebirth of a Nation DJ Spookys Rebirth of a Nation has been touring for several years and has drawn acclaim around the world From the Herod Atticus Theater at the base of the Acropolis in Greece to the London IMAX Europes largest movie screen Dj Spooky has presented the remix as an engagement with film music and contemporary art He likes to think of it as film as found object in the same sense that artists such as Marcel Duchamp Jeff Koons Andy Warhol and David Hammons amongst many others have fostered creative investigations into the idea of found objects cinema and appropriation art