2017, HD video, 23:16
Aesthetic Catharsis in the Era of American Fascists examines the racial, psychological, and image-based power structures behind the spectacle-oriented nature of contemporary American politics. Dissecting the idolization of Donald Trump through the tools of film theory, aesthetics, media archaeology, and appropriation, our current political reality is analyzed through an amalgamation of video formats and structuralist-informed, heavily composed editing techniques.