Traveling at night [videorecording] / Chris Kraus. [1991]

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Traveling at night [videorecording] / Chris Kraus. [1991]

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Presented as a documentary about the Underground Railroad, this piece is also a meditation on history as poetic mystification. Shot in the remote Adirondack town of Warrensburg, New York, the video documents a fourth-grade class field trip to forest caves that were a stopping point in the network of secret routes and safe houses used to help fugitive slaves escape to freedom in the 19th century. Kraus intercuts footage of this sanitized history lesson with textual documentation of the traffic in human lives. This constant shifting between visual and textual information disrupts the narrative and reveals history as subjective--something simulated or projected from the realm of the imaginary.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (12 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original.

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Kraus, Chris, 1955-

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