Shot in one such actual town in West Virginia, the
film presents
numerous striking
images of natural beauty (Rachel Morrison is the cinematographer), which don't rouse the movie
from its narrative torpor.
The wide variety of materials that constitute the exhibition (including collections of photographs, slide projections, periodicals, recent
film and video installations, sculptures, and printed works on paper) create
numerous situations within which to consider not only the materiality of
images and the technologies that form their reception, but also the conflicted social history that lies under their surfaces and is inextricable
from their origins.