Artworks

Originally screened by BOXBLUR in collaboration with the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Second Seed (2022) by Baye & Asa (Amadi Washington and Sam Pratt) is an ongoing body of work (live performance, lecture, discussion, and film) responding to D.W. Griffith's 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation, based on Thomas Dixon's novel The Clansman. Filmmakers Baye & Asa note that “Griffith’s film is an assertion of White supremacy, and a veneration of the KKK. It’s a call to arms against the changing social/racial structure of America. Our film confronts the myth of Griffith’s ‘helpless white minority,’ and the cult of white-victimhood’s enduring impact on American polity. Second Seed is our collision with this American artifact.”