The 3-channel video installation brings together four histories: the 1860s scorched earth policy of Kit Carson used to drive out the Navajos from their homeland in Canyon de Chelly, the 1967 execution of Che Guevara in Bolivia, the 1972 carpet bombing of Hanoi, and the 2016 Cedar Fire in the California Sierras. The radio transmission is from a US Air Force B-52 (Stratofortress Bomber, code name Lilac 02) recorded on the evening of December 26, 1972 during which 116 B-52s attacked Hanoi and Haiphong dropping all of their bombs within 15 minutes.
James Benning
Director
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
The Class of ‘9271%
Sherman's March65%
Above Majestic73%
A Plastic Ocean75%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Fuck64%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Night Will Fall76%
Naqoyqatsi61%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
180° South72%
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
McQueen74%
Dawg Fight65%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
Directed by John Ford70%
The Making of Star Wars70%
Public Speaking70%
