Film Info
Short documentary, cinematic séance, emotional history of communism in the USA.
Statement
Statement
The Length of Day tells the emotional history of socialism in the United States. Filmmaker Laura Conway enacts a cinematic seance animating FBI documents, political buttons, and appropriated scenes from Michelangelo Antonioni films to communicate with her deceased communist grandparents. The film mourns in multiple timelines; young radicals losing their ideals in the face of history, the death of the protagonists, and the loss of an alternative to capitalism.
Press
Read the Westword piece.
Screenings
Premiered at Slamdance 2021, and screened at Chicago Underground, Denver Art Museum, Mimesis, Antimatter Media Arts among others.
