White Homeland Commando

  • 63'
  • USA
  • 1991
An unusually-designed political variation on the police film, with biting dialogues and virtuoso acting. Using the so-called stop-motion technique, all the movements are slowed and jerky, achieving a stroboscopic effect.The cops are on the trail of a weird right-wing terrorist group. Cops and terrorists take turns in the limelight. The atmosphere and structure of the terrorist group looks like that of the Weathermen, the left-wing underground organisation which preached armed struggle in the United States in the early seventies. The terrorists spout an incredible amount of racist language in the film; using this extreme reversal, this video points out the existence of this phenomenon in the present-day American media.
Director
Elizabeth LeCompte
Country of production
USA
Year
1991
Festival Edition
IFFR 1993
Length
63'
Medium
umatic
Language
English
Producer
The Wooster Group
Sales
The Kitchen
Director
Elizabeth LeCompte
Country of production
USA
Year
1991
Festival Edition
IFFR 1993
Length
63'
Medium
umatic
Language
English
Producer
The Wooster Group
Sales
The Kitchen