The Killing of America
Sheldon Renan
- 1981
- USA
- Documentary
- 1h30mn
- Original version with French subtitles
Preview
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Sensitive viewers beware. Written and secretly directed by Leonard Schrader, a scriptwriter and regular collaborator of his brother Paul, The Killing of America presents the shadows of the deranged America of mass shootings, serial killers, repeated presidential assassinations and hidden snipers, through often explicit and harrowing archive footage. Beyond the catalog effect, the works questions image, an image as injured and anonymous as the victims, taken from television to surveillance videos. The film doesn’t always avoid mondo sensationalism, but everything is totally authentic, and authentically political, with as a subtext an eminently metaphysical liberation of evil. To Schrader and his co-writer and wife Chieko, America was killed the day Kennedy died, unearthing its monsters for a new apocalypse… that continues today. Chilling and prophetic.
Credits
- With : Chuck Riley, Ed Dorris, Thomas Noguchi, Sirhan Sirhan, Wayne Henley...
- Screenplay : Leonard Schrader, Chieko Schrader
- Photography : Robert Charlton, Tom Hurwitz, Willy Kurant, Peter Smokler
- Editing : Lee Percy
- Music by : W. Michael Lewis, Mark Lindsay
- Production : Leonard Schrader, Mataichirô Yamamoto
