THE GENOCIDE HOUSE: Section II (Oct. 4-10)

Written By Michael Workman

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The Genocide House, Section II

Description
The trailer for Robert Kloss’s novel, “The Genocide House” is a viewing portal that puts on display the grim history of what dishonest people call civilization. Voices of the damned speak passages from the book over a blend of cinematic stock and archival materials optically cohered into a dusty black & white stew. 

Section I of “The Genocide House” Trailer paints the disturbing portrait of white colonial expansion across north america and the subsequent extermination of the continent’s indigenous people from 1675 to the present. 

Section II of “The Genocide House” Trailer explores the callous thoughts of a sexually malicious killer who lived in the latter half of the 19th century. 

Section III of “The Genocide House” Trailer takes on a more impartial tone, shedding light on what life was like during the era of the 1918 Influenza pandemic at the tail end of WWI. 

Section IV of “The Genocide House” Trailer draws comparison between the men who oversaw the extermination of European Jews and Japanese civilians at the height of their authority.  

Runtime: 1 minute, 40 seconds
Best Viewed: Any Screen / Cinema Presentation / Projection

Director Biography - Ben Nissen
Ben Nissen is a Chicago director, cinematographer, editor, and writer. He was born in the western suburbs of Chicago in 1982 and spent much of his childhood illustrating and writing stories and comics. He directed numerous shorts, documentaries, commercials, and music videos since 2005 after graduating from Columbia College Chicago. His first feature film, Nowhere Mind, was released in 2018.

Credits & Specifications
Robert Kloss (Writer)
Ben Nissen (Director/Editor) 

Production Company:
Odd Commodity

Voiceovers:
Meghan Lamb
Jesse Andrus
Ben Nissen 

Music: Mark Solotroff 

Tech Specs:
Color: Black & White and Color
Country of Origin: United States
Resolution: 2880 x 2160 (4K)
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Sound Mix: 2.0 Stereo

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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