What SUNDANCE has to say about CSA:
"An audacious, frighteningly resonant faux documentary, CSA: The Confederate States of America asks what American culture would look like if the South had won the Civil War. Venturing a glimpse at such a world, it stimulates the experience of watching a TV special, complete with racist commericals and newsbreaks.
The special itself, a slick Ken Burns-style piece, details the "grand" history of the Confederate nation as it fights to preserve its antebellum way of life. After triumphing at Gettysburg, the South sends Lincoln packing for Canada and gets cozy in the White House. The long-term result? Chattel slavery of all non-Aryans; all-out conquest and apartheid in Latin America; an alliance with Hitler, a Cold War with Canada; a slave shopping network on TV and the Internet.
A thoroughly researched and phenomenally well-executed satire which fastidiously hybridizes factual and fictional elements, CSA's bold, unbridled offensiveness is certain to elicit uncomfortable laughter. Its power lies in its proximity to the truth and its creepily familiar rhetoric. As Trent Lott defends "states' rights," black men pack prisons, and euphemisms continue to mask hatred and misunderstanding, CSA is a parody that painfully but humorously hits close to home."
Caroline Libresco
Other chances to catch CSA:
2004 Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee
2004 True/False Film Festival |
