Red White and
Blue Dawn
2004 / MAX-JITTER-softVNS
In 1984, the Reagan-era nationalist movie "Red Dawn" depicts the invasion of the United States by Soviet and Cuban troops. A band of youths from a small town in Colorado name themselves the "Wolverines" and mount a guerilla resistance against the invaders who murdered their families.
In 2003, the conclusion of the U.S. led operation Red Dawn, came with the capture of Saddam Hussein by a U.S. Marine outfit called the Wolverines. In this case, the United States military misappropriates these cultural icons though a technique similar to Orwellian 'newspeak' outlined in his novel "1984". The U.S. military isn't mounting an insurgency against a foreign invader - it is the foreign invader. The real insurgents in Iraq are the Iraqi people who continue to wage guerilla war, being labeled 'terrorists' - instead of the 'Wolverines'. Most Americans (certainly fans of Red Dawn) would miss this fact, as the true message of that film, and indeed of the U.S. occupation in Iraq, is one of blind nationalism.
Red White and Blue Dawn is constructed from the combined media coverage from the first year of the U.S. invasion into Iraq. This news-data acts as a motion-graphic mask upon the replaying of the film "Red Dawn". Currently in production, the final film will be dubbed entirely in Arabic with English subtitles.
2004 / MAX-JITTER-softVNS
In 1984, the Reagan-era nationalist movie "Red Dawn" depicts the invasion of the United States by Soviet and Cuban troops. A band of youths from a small town in Colorado name themselves the "Wolverines" and mount a guerilla resistance against the invaders who murdered their families.
In 2003, the conclusion of the U.S. led operation Red Dawn, came with the capture of Saddam Hussein by a U.S. Marine outfit called the Wolverines. In this case, the United States military misappropriates these cultural icons though a technique similar to Orwellian 'newspeak' outlined in his novel "1984". The U.S. military isn't mounting an insurgency against a foreign invader - it is the foreign invader. The real insurgents in Iraq are the Iraqi people who continue to wage guerilla war, being labeled 'terrorists' - instead of the 'Wolverines'. Most Americans (certainly fans of Red Dawn) would miss this fact, as the true message of that film, and indeed of the U.S. occupation in Iraq, is one of blind nationalism.
Red White and Blue Dawn is constructed from the combined media coverage from the first year of the U.S. invasion into Iraq. This news-data acts as a motion-graphic mask upon the replaying of the film "Red Dawn". Currently in production, the final film will be dubbed entirely in Arabic with English subtitles.