a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert.
MovieTitle | a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert. |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jan 1, 2004 |
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Director | Coco Fusco |
Production country | US |
Run time | 31 min. |
Multidisciplinary artist Coco Fusco chronicles public obsession with and depictions of Angela Davis. In 1970, after the state of California issued a warrant for Davis’s arrest and she was subsequently placed on the FBI’s most-wanted list, she went into hiding. In her public absence, her image was endlessly reproduced and disseminated as she was stalked by the State. Using archival imagery and fictionalized first-person accounts of the FBI agent who pursued her, Fusco’s formally inventive, sardonic, and fantastical short is a send-up of the surveillance state and weaponized imagery.